{"id":7268,"date":"2020-01-11T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2020-01-11T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:04:47","slug":"movie-review-the-forgotten-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/movie-review-the-forgotten-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review:  The Forgotten Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we wrote a blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/09\/the-warning\/\"><em>The Warning<\/em><\/a>, a statue honoing two motor officers who came to be known as the Paul Reveres of Santa Paula. \u00a0 The statue was an unanticipated discovery on a motorcycle ride through Santa Paula, and it had my attention because it&#8217;s not the kind of monument you see every day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Warning.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other night Sue and I were flipping through the movies on Amazon Prime, and to my great surprise one I had not seen before popped up:\u00a0 <em>The Forgotten Tragedy:\u00a0 The Story of the St. Francis Dam.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;m embarrassed to admit that when I first saw that statue in Santa Paula 10 years ago, I had never heard of the St. Francis Dam and its collapse.\u00a0 I grew up on the east coast, and there&#8217;s a lot we never heard about back there.\u00a0 It took a little digging for me to learn about California&#8217;s second largest disaster ever (the only event involving greater loss of life in the Golden State was the San Francisco earthquake), so the idea of a movie on the St. Francis Dam and its collapse had my immediate attention. \u00a0 <em>The Forgotten Tragedy<\/em> is a documentary and it&#8217;s very well done.\u00a0 It even included a bit about the motorcycle officers in the above statue (although it only mentioned one).<\/p>\n<p>Trust me on this, my friends.\u00a0 <em>The Forgotten Tragedy:\u00a0 The Story of the St. Francis Dam<\/em> is worth viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we wrote a blog about The Warning, a statue honoing two motor officers who came to be known as the Paul Reveres of Santa Paula. \u00a0 The statue was an unanticipated discovery on a motorcycle ride through Santa Paula, and it had my attention because it&#8217;s not the kind of monument you see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/movie-review-the-forgotten-tragedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review:  The Forgotten Tragedy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,103],"tags":[943,1027,1028],"class_list":["post-7268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harley","category-harley-davidson","tag-movie-review","tag-st-francis-dam-collapse","tag-the-forgotten-tragedy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7272,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions\/7272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}