{"id":75744,"date":"2016-06-27T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=75744"},"modified":"2016-06-27T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:13:23","slug":"they-called-me-osama-a-short-documentary-on-sikhs-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/06\/they-called-me-osama-a-short-documentary-on-sikhs-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Called Me Osama:\u2019 A Short Documentary on Sikhs in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new documentary film released earlier this month seeks to educate people about the Sikh religion and the experiences of Sikhs in America, including\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/sikh-american-teen-writes-book-raise-awareness-about-bullying-n478426\" >bullying in schools<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/sikh-community-condemns-doctored-photo-depict-sikh-canadian-man-terrorist-n465686\" >racism<\/a>, and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/more-advocates-join-call-hate-crime-investigation-attack-sikh-bus-n510636\" >hate violence<\/a>. The film, made by\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maneetpaul.com\/featured-projects\" >Maneetpaul Singh Chawla<\/a>\u00a0with funding from the University of Connecticut\u2019s IDEA grant program, aims at preventing abuses of Sikhs and informing mainstream Americans about the centuries old Sikh religion.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m5w57L8kfjI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new documentary film released earlier this month seeks to educate people about the Sikh religion and the experiences of Sikhs in America, including bullying in schools, racism, and hate violence. The film, made by Maneetpaul Singh Chawla with funding from the University of Connecticut\u2019s IDEA grant program, aims at preventing abuses of Sikhs and informing mainstream Americans about the centuries old Sikh religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}