{"id":17275,"date":"2007-10-02T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/junot-diaz-on-the-big-screen\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T01:43:56","slug":"junot-diaz-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/10\/02\/junot-diaz-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Junot Diaz on the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dominican-born writer Junot Diaz&#8217;s first novel, &#8220;The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,&#8221; is to be made into a film by Miramax, according to the Hollywood News. The movie rights to the book were bought by producer Scott Rudin. Junot&#8217;s novel tells the story of a Dominican immigrant to the city of Patterson, New Jersey. Junot Diaz received international acclaim with his book of short stories, &#8220;Drown.&#8221; No date for filming has been given.<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2007\/09\/29\/miramax-is-gunning-for-an-oscar\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican-born writer Junot Diaz&#8217;s first novel, &#8220;The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,&#8221; is to be made into a film by Miramax, according to the Hollywood News. The movie rights to the book were bought by producer Scott Rudin. Junot&#8217;s novel tells the story of a Dominican immigrant to the city of Patterson, New Jersey. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/10\/02\/junot-diaz-on-the-big-screen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[226,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}