{"id":6942,"date":"2009-11-02T23:32:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2009-11-02T23:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T23:33:56","slug":"jon-krakauer-on-meet-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/11\/02\/jon-krakauer-on-meet-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Krakauer on Meet The Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/33573505#33573505\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/krakauer\/author.html\">Jon Krakauer<\/a><\/strong> is the US author who wrote the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer\/dp\/0330351699\">Into the Wild<\/a>, which was adapted into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0758758\/\">the 2007 film<\/a> directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000576\/\">Sean Penn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the above interview on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032608\/\">Meet The Press<\/a> he discusses his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1848873018?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=1848873018\">Where Men Win Glory<\/a>, which examines\u00a0the extraordinary story of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Tillman\">Pat Tillman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was the US football player who gave up a highly lucrative career in order to join the US army after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/September_11_attacks\">9\/11<\/a> and\u00a0was killed in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Tillman#Death\">a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan during 2004<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances surrounding his death have been <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Tillman#Controversy_surrounding_Tillman.27s_death\">controversial<\/a> to say the least and the current commander of US troops in Afghanistan, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_A._McChrystal\">General Stanley McChrystal<\/a>, also has an interesting role in the whole affair which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/6488664\/Gen-Stanley-McChrystal-faces-Pat-Tillman-book-allegations.html\">raises uncomfortable questions for him and President Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Sean Penn is interested in making this book into a film?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Jon Krakauer discussing his new book about Pat Tillman, &#8216;Where Men Win Glory&#8217;, on Meet The Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}