{"id":27,"date":"2014-04-03T19:03:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreading2014\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2014-04-03T19:03:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:03:38","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_75\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75\" class=\"wp-image-75 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2014\/04\/davidWithShaman.jpg\" alt=\"David Poritz and Delfine Payague\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2014\/04\/davidWithShaman.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2014\/04\/davidWithShaman-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2014\/04\/davidWithShaman-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-75\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Poritz (Brown University &#8217;12) gets his face painted by Delfine Payague, one of the last remaining Secoya shamans in the Ecuadorian Amazon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreading2014\/firstreadingsmovie\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2014\/04\/watchOilWater.jpg\" alt=\"watchOilWater\" width=\"50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2014\/04\/watchOilWater.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2014\/04\/watchOilWater-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Incoming first-year and transfer students at Brown University will be viewing <em>Oil &amp; Water<\/em> as part of this year\u2019s First Readings program. The film is\u00a0a coming-of-age story\u00a0of two boys, from two different backgrounds, confronting one of the world\u2019s worst toxic disasters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2014\/06\/firstReadingsLetter2014.pdf\">Learn more about the program from\u00a0the email sent by\u00a0Dean\u00a0Margaret Klawunn to first-year students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each student will write and submit a letter to their advisor. Letters should be submitted online by August 15.<\/p>\n<p>Students can <a href=\"https:\/\/ask.brown.edu\/frst_rdngs\/\" target=\"_blank\">submit their letters here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall the directors will be on campus to discuss the film.<\/p>\n<p>This site has been created as a tool to help new students further explore the issues relevant in <em>Oil &amp; Water<\/em> while also becoming familiar with the resources available through the Brown Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming first-year and transfer students at Brown University will be viewing Oil &amp; Water as part of this year\u2019s First Readings program. The film is\u00a0a coming-of-age story\u00a0of two boys, from two different backgrounds, confronting one of the world\u2019s worst toxic disasters. Learn more about the program from\u00a0the email sent by\u00a0Dean\u00a0Margaret Klawunn to first-year students. Each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}