{"id":18071,"date":"2016-11-13T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18071"},"modified":"2016-11-14T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:37:09","slug":"defying-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18071","title":{"rendered":"Defying the Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I went to a number of events related to Virtual Reality.  At one of those events I saw a description of a truly beautiful film, with a companion VR piece, <a href=http:\/\/www.defyingthenazis.org\/vr-experience.html>Defying the Nazis<\/a>, co-created by the celebrated documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.<\/p>\n<p>The true story being told is of a daring rescue of 29 children from Nazi occupied France &#8212; children who otherwise would have been put to death simply for their ethnic identity.  The film is transported to an entirely different plane by the way it uses virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>One of those children &#8212; now, 76 years later &#8212; is given the opportunity to view that long ago escape within immersive VR.  Her response to the experience is a marvel to behold.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure that all Americans will join me in agreeing that there can be no greater way to honor our country, no more powerful affirmation of our nation&#8217;s fundamental ideals, than our willingness to rescue innocent children from the threat of death or great suffering, and to welcome them into our land with open arms.  I&#8217;m proud that I live in a country where every one of us can at least agree on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I went to a number of events related to Virtual Reality. At one of those events I saw a description of a truly beautiful film, with a companion VR piece, Defying the Nazis, co-created by the celebrated documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. The true story being told is of a daring rescue of 29 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18071\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Defying the Nazis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18074,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071\/revisions\/18074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}