{"id":865,"date":"2010-12-26T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=865"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:32:54","slug":"athlete-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/athlete-the\/","title":{"rendered":"ATHLETE, THE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian track and field <strong>athlete<\/strong>, Abebe <strong>Bikila<\/strong> (1932-1973), was the first black African to win an Olympic medal, and ultimately the first man ever to win two Olympic marathons. This soft-spoken son of an Ethiopian shepherd shocked the Western world when he crossed the finish line barefoot at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Mr. Bikila became an inspiration and a model for Africans everywhere, and the world of distance running would never be the same. But as <em>The Athlete<\/em> demonstrates in a seamless blend of documentary footage and dramatic rendition, Abebe Bikila\u2019s greatest personal challenges still lay before him. <em>The Athlete<\/em> is Ethiopia\u2019s first Oscar contender in the Foreign Language Film category, nominated for consideration for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In Amharic and English with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<h3>Trailer<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u5ejavZjLsc\" frameborder=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian track and field athlete, Abebe Bikila (1932-1973), was the first black African to win an Olympic medal, and ultimately the first man ever to win two Olympic marathons. This soft-spoken son of an Ethiopian shepherd shocked the Western world when he crossed the finish line barefoot at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Mr. Bikila [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}