{"id":89835,"date":"2019-04-23T02:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/avengers-endgame-the-not-so-hidden-environmental-politics-of-marvels-apocalyptic-blockbuster"},"modified":"2019-04-23T02:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T09:02:25","slug":"avengers-endgame-the-not-so-hidden-environmental-politics-of-marvels-apocalyptic-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/avengers-endgame-the-not-so-hidden-environmental-politics-of-marvels-apocalyptic-blockbuster","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Avengers Endgame\u2019: The not-so-hidden environmental politics of Marvel\u2019s apocalyptic blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/avengers-endgame-the-not-so-hidden-environmental-politics-of-marvels-apocalyptic-blockbuster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter what side of any issue you may find yourself, there is no denying the power of a popular movie or TV show to ignite an intense debate or even a casual conversation about socially relevant issues,\u201d Dergarabedian said. \u201cAnd often the best way to do that is within a giant superhero extravaganza.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Monday is Earth Day, and later this week, the premiere of \u2018Avengers: Endgame.\u2019 The two are not dissimilar. As superheroes fight genocide-survivor turned villain Thanos, the environmental message is clear: resource scarcity and overpopulation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/04\/20\/avengers-endgame-the-not-so-hidden-marvel-environmental-politics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo matter what side of any issue you may find yourself, there is no denying the power of a popular movie or TV show to ignite an intense debate or even a casual conversation about socially relevant issues,\u201d Dergarabedian said. \u201cAnd often the best way to do that is within a giant superhero extravaganza. Monday [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}