{"id":3096,"date":"2010-10-14T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T12:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2010-10-14T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T12:57:13","slug":"lovers-in-a-dangerous-time-and-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/lovers-in-a-dangerous-time-and-place","title":{"rendered":"Lovers in a Dangerous Time and Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3101\" title=\"children-of-god\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/children-of-god-e1287061006428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Religion isn&#8217;t always necessarily the source of homophobia &#8211; but by  lending a veneer of moral authority, it can be a deadly enabler.<\/p>\n<p>This notion forms the nucleus of Bahamian writer\/director Kareem Mortimer\u2019s  Children of God, an affecting drama set in one of the world&#8217;s most  homophobic regions, the Caribbean.\u00a0 The Bahamas, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, visual splendour is the film\u2019s greatest strength;  cinematographer Ian Bloom makes the gorgeous locales come alive with  light, colour and warmth. He\u2019s particularly good at photographing the  Afro-Caribbean characters, making their flesh appear lustrous and  sensual.<\/p>\n<p>This film is not simply pretty pictures, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/bahamas\/entertainment\/children-of-god.html\">View a trailer for the film<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the link below to read the full review by Kenton Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Children of God&#8217;, a film by Bahamian Kareem Mortimer, is a visually exquisite story of gay love in the Caribbean, where homophobia is rampant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[26,30],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-arts","tag-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}