{"id":1358,"date":"2013-07-15T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:01:34","slug":"a-modern-home-scholar-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/15\/a-modern-home-scholar-9\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Famous Home Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astra Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers\/olympus-digital-camera-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Astra1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2006 Filmmaker Magazine called Astra Taylor one of the \u201c25 new faces to watch\u201d in filmmaking. Taylor is a Canadian-American\u00a0documentary filmmaker best known for her philosophically oriented films\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zizekthemovie.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Zizek!<\/span><\/a><\/em>,<\/span> about the philosopher Slavov Zizek, and\u00a0<em>Examined Life<\/em>,\u00a0a\u00a0series of on-the-move interviews with contemporary philosophers\u00a0that attempts to make philosophy relevant to the man and woman on the street. Taylor grew up in Athens, Georgia and was\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">unschooled<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(a child-guided variation of homeschooling) along with her three siblings.\u00a0You can\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">watch Taylor<\/span><\/span>\u00a0talk about her experience being\u00a0unschooled\u00a0at a recent lecture for\u00a0The Walker Art Center.\u00a0Taylor\u00a0is married to Jeff Mangum of the popular indie rock\u00a0band\u00a0Neutral Milk Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Astra Taylor In 2006 Filmmaker Magazine called Astra Taylor one of the \u201c25 new faces to watch\u201d in filmmaking. Taylor is a Canadian-American\u00a0documentary filmmaker best known for her philosophically oriented films\u00a0Zizek!, about the philosopher Slavov Zizek, and\u00a0Examined Life,\u00a0a\u00a0series of on-the-move interviews with contemporary philosophers\u00a0that attempts to make philosophy relevant to the man and woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}