{"id":118,"date":"2009-07-29T22:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T05:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-07-29T22:13:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T05:13:33","slug":"rider-strong-joins-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Rider Strong Joins the Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-119\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" title=\"Rider Strong\" src=\"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/riderheadshot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rider Strong\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>We are thrilled to have <strong>Rider Strong<\/strong> join our team as the Darkening Sky lead character. Rider not only brings his tremendous talent to the film, but also his years of experience and expertise in film and TV making.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his brother, Rider recently wrote and directed his first short film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtwinsfilm.com\/\"><em>Irish Twins<\/em><\/a>, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to play over 15 film festivals worldwide and garner many awards.<\/p>\n<p>Rider is also a gifted poet. His poems have appeared in literary journals throughout the country, including \u201cCurbside Review,\u201d \u201cThe Chiron Review,\u201d and \u201cPoetry Motel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graduating <em>magna cum laud<\/em>e from Columbia University in 2004, Rider received his M.F.A. in Fiction and Literature from Bennington College in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to have Rider Strong join our team as the Darkening Sky lead character. Rider not only brings his tremendous talent to the film, but also his years of experience and expertise in film and TV making. Along with his brother, Rider recently wrote and directed his first short film, Irish Twins, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkening-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkeningsky.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}