{"id":63458,"date":"2015-01-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=63458"},"modified":"2015-01-20T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:10:38","slug":"welcome-to-leith-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=63458","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Welcome to Leith&#8221; documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/craigcobbBW.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32413\" alt=\"craigcobbBW\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/craigcobbBW-300x200.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/craigcobbBW-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/craigcobbBW-262x175.png 262w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/craigcobbBW.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; One of the films at this year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival is a documentary done by two New York filmmakers about white supremacist Craig Cobb&#8217;s attempt to take over the North Dakota town of Leith.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 86-minute documentary by Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker is called &#8220;Welcome to Leith.&#8221; The festival&#8217;s senior programmer says its underpinning is &#8220;how we wrestle with our democratic principles when they&#8217;re pushed to the limit.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cobb&#8217;s effort to turn Leith into an Aryan enclave failed. He&#8217;s now serving probation for menacing and terrorizing.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nichols says he and Walker were fascinated by the turmoil in Leith. Their film uses footage of what happened and interviews with people to drive the narrative.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The film premieres Monday. Leith&#8217;s mayor will attend, and Cobb will Skype in to answer questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; One of the films at this year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival is a documentary done by two New York filmmakers about white supremacist Craig Cobb&#8217;s attempt to take over the North Dakota town of Leith. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 86-minute documentary by Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63461,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458\/revisions\/63461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}