{"id":8042,"date":"2014-02-12T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:53:46","slug":"movie-review-captain-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=8042","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Captain Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have been wanting to watch the movie Captain Phillips<\/em><\/a> ever since it first came out. \u00a0Due to busy schedules and life…we just haven’t gotten to the theater. \u00a0In the Atlanta area, we are headed into our 3rd day off of school tomorrow due to our current ice storm…making a perfect setting to watch a movie like this.<\/p>\n

Captain Phillips<\/em>\u00a0is an action-packed movie depicting the true story of the \u00a02009 hijacking of the American ship\u00a0Maersk Alabama<\/em>\u00a0by a crew of Somali pirates. \u00a0Tom Hanks plays Captain Rich Phillips that deftly navigates his crew through the horror of the pirate invasion while demonstrating some crucial leadership skills. \u00a0I will mention that there are a variety of stories of how the real Captain Phillips responded in this situation. \u00a0I wasn’t there, but the movie portrays him as an excellent leader in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n

As soon as the pirates were detected on the radar of the Maersk Alabama<\/em>, Phillips calmly switched into the mode of a leader defending his ship and his people. \u00a0There were so many calculated decisions that Phillips made along the way that no doubt saved the lives of his crew as well as himself. \u00a0This movie brings awareness to the danger present around the Horn of Africa which is a major shipping channel. \u00a0 is a graphic that also brings to light the tragedy that is taking place with the people of Somalia who are living in the midst of all of this.<\/p>\n

This is an excellent movie if you have a chance to watch it. \u00a0More important, use this movie as a great reminder to pray for the people of Somalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been wanting to watch the movie Captain Phillips ever since it first came out. \u00a0Due to busy schedules and life…we just haven’t gotten to the theater. \u00a0In the Atlanta area, we are headed into our 3rd day off of school tomorrow due to our current ice storm…making a perfect setting to watch a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-movie-review","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}