{"id":9894,"date":"2011-02-07T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=9894"},"modified":"2011-02-07T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:54:19","slug":"will-hunting-had-it-right-14-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/02\/will-hunting-had-it-right-14-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Hunting Had It Right 14 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite scene from <em>Good Will Hunting<\/em> and pertinent to the principles of liberty in its condemnation of killing people abroad who have done no harm to you personally. With inspiration from Howard Zinn.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l8rQNdBmPek&amp;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><em>Matthew Paige &#8220;Matt&#8221; Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philanthropist\" title=\"Philanthropist\" >philanthropist<\/a> whose career was launched following the success of the film <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Good_Will_Hunting\" title=\"Good Will Hunting\" >Good Will Hunting<\/a> (1997), from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Affleck\" title=\"Ben Affleck\" >Ben Affleck<\/a> with a profound influence from progressive <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historian\" title=\"Historian\" >historian<\/a> and author <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Zinn\" title=\"Howard Zinn\" >Howard Zinn<\/a>, a close friend. The pair won the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Writing_Original_Screenplay\" title=\"Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay\" >Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Screenplay\" title=\"Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay\" >Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay<\/a> for their work and Damon garnered multiple Best Actor nominations, including the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor\" title=\"Academy Award for Best Actor\" >Academy Award<\/a>, for his lead performance in the film. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite scene from Good Will Hunting and pertinent to the principles of liberty in its condemnation of killing people abroad who have done no harm to you personally. With inspiration from Howard Zinn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894","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=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}