{"id":18524,"date":"2026-04-20T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18524"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:31:52","slug":"when-we-were-kings-1996-leon-gast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18524","title":{"rendered":"When We Were Kings (1996, Leon Gast)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The champ, George Foreman, vs. the kid, Muhammad Ali, in Zaire<br \/>\nAnd other politics involved in the affair<br \/>\nIncluding rare footage leading up to the event<br \/>\nPlus, interviews with VIPs, remembering the effects<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWe heard about that legendary clashing of the titans<br \/>\nBut could never have contextualized the metrics or environment<br \/>\nUntil, 90 minutes of history<br \/>\nAnd images and music, I was riveted, <a href=\"https:\/\/aesoprock.bandcamp.com\/album\/black-hole-superette\">infinity<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listened\/half-watched while assembling furniture after turning on <em>Henry Fonda For President<\/em> and realizing it had subtitles.  Good movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The champ, George Foreman, vs. the kid, Muhammad Ali, in Zaire And other politics involved in the affair Including rare footage leading up to the event Plus, interviews with VIPs, remembering the effects &#8230; We heard about that legendary clashing of the titans But could never have contextualized the metrics or environment Until, 90 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,42,798,93,2073],"class_list":["post-18524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-africa","tag-boxing","tag-documentary","tag-rock-doc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18568,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions\/18568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}