{"id":2039,"date":"2009-03-16T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2009-03-16T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:22:24","slug":"the-united-nations-whoopi-goldberg-and-battlestar-galactica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"The United Nations, Whoopi Goldberg, and Battlestar Galactica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now &#8230; why can&#8217;t we have this kind of panel at our conventions?<\/p>\n<p>From the New York Times &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>By PATRICK HEALY; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM<br \/>\nPublished: March 15, 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Battlestar Galactica\u2019: The Worldview<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations and the Sci Fi Channel will present a panel discussion Tuesday evening on the social and political issues raised by the Sci Fi series \u201cBattlestar Galactica,\u201d which concludes on Friday night. Moderated by Whoopi Goldberg (a frequent guest on \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d), the topics include human rights, terrorism, and reconciliation and dialogue among civilizations and faiths. Among those participating are \u201cBattlestar\u201d actors Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, as well as the show\u2019s executive producers, Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. The event is invitation-only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now &#8230; why can&#8217;t we have this kind of panel at our conventions? From the New York Times &#8230;. By PATRICK HEALY; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM Published: March 15, 2009 \u2018Battlestar Galactica\u2019: The Worldview The United Nations and the Sci Fi Channel will present a panel discussion Tuesday evening on the social and political issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}