{"id":4556,"date":"2015-06-20T23:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T04:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2018-12-04T23:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:25:29","slug":"new-york-cine-softball-and-grounders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2015\/06\/20\/new-york-cine-softball-and-grounders\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Cine: Softball and Grounders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4557\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11426968_1129621377066063_8404390380107496901_n.jpg\" alt=\"11426968_1129621377066063_8404390380107496901_n\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11426968_1129621377066063_8404390380107496901_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11426968_1129621377066063_8404390380107496901_n-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11426968_1129621377066063_8404390380107496901_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkcine.podbean.com\/e\/new-york-cine-170-interview-with-filmmaker-melanie-hope-about-the-doc-grounders-also-game-of-thrones-chat\/\">New York Cine Radio Podcast is up<\/a>. Melanie Hope, my old buddy from college, rolled through the podcast tonight to promote her upcoming documentary. I hadn&#8217;t seen Mel since maybe a year or two after I graduated. It was great to catch up and hear what she has been up to over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Her film is called Grounders (<a href=\"http:\/\/groundersdocumentary.com\">http:\/\/groundersdocumentary.com<\/a>) and focuses on a Brooklyn based softball league and the lives of the women that take the field. In addition to talking <!--more-->about her project we also got into a deep discussion on the role of sports in our culture and how athletics can be a positive influence for all women.<\/p>\n<p>Finally the guys and I discuss the fifth season finale of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; and the shocking ending that caught everyone by surprise.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"audio_iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/dna2f-56ced1?skin=103\" width=\"450\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Hope rolled through the podcast tonight to promote her upcoming documentary called Grounders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[455,845,11],"tags":[751,753,754,752,394,757,755,756],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-cine-radio","category-audio-video-podcasts","category-sports-and-fitness","tag-baseball","tag-brooklyn","tag-documentary","tag-melanie-hope","tag-new-york-cine","tag-softball","tag-sports","tag-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}