{"id":6969,"date":"2013-06-21T00:11:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T04:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6969"},"modified":"2015-02-19T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T00:14:21","slug":"yuck-a-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/yuck-a-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuck: A Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist &#8220;liking&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yuckmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this documentary film page on Facebook<\/a>. Check out the trailer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/48406956\" width=\"838\" height=\"471\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Trailer: Yuck - A 4th Grader&#039;s Short Documentary About School Lunch\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sure, crappy school lunches have been photographed, filmed and blogged about before. What makes Zachary Maxwell&#8217;s experience a little different, however, is that this situation was supposed to have been fixed in his school\/district. <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fcityroom.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fthe-michael-moore-of-the-grade-school-lunchroom%2F%3F_r%3D5&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to this New York Times account&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like many things in the life of a fourth grader, Zachary\u2019s movie started as a dispute with his parents. He told them that he wanted to start packing his own lunch, but they were skeptical. Lunch is free at his school, P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto in Little Italy, and his parents liked the look of the Department of Education\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolfoodnyc.org\/public1\/default.aspx?logout=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online menus<\/a>, which describe delicious meals, full of whole grains and fresh vegetables, some even designed by celebrity chefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them that\u2019s not what they were actually serving me,\u201d Zachary said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think they believed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So he smuggled in a camera in his sweatshirt pocket the next day and filmed lunch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came back home and showed them the footage, they were like, ugh!\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Zachary had some help from his dad, a video hobbyist, but he was the one who did the work &#8211; which is good enough to be screened at the Manhattan Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that, at some point, the full version is put online &#8211; I&#8217;d like to see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist &#8220;liking&#8221; this documentary film page on Facebook. Check out the trailer: Sure, crappy school lunches have been photographed, filmed and blogged about before. What makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[1441,1442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9954,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}