{"id":1087,"date":"2012-05-18T00:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T13:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.reviewmeplease.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2012-05-18T00:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T13:19:57","slug":"dolphin-boy-interview-with-yonatan-nir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin Boy- Interview  with Yonatan Nir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tECllWso0r4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe had the opportunity to speak with the co- writer and co- director Yonatan Nir of Dolphin Boy. Seventeen year old Morad Azba&#8217;s innocent text message to a female classmate in an Arab village in the North of Israel triggers a brutal beating at the hands of the girl&#8217;s brother and his friends. Unable to speak, recognize his family, or make eye contact, Morad&#8217;s post trauma symptoms are so severe that his Israeli doctor, world renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Ilan Kutz, recommends further treatment in an institution. But Morad&#8217;s father Asad cannot bring himself to limit Morad&#8217;s freedom and asks Dr. Kutz if there&#8217;s another option. There is one alternative, albeit unconventional\u2014Dolphin therapy in Eilat&#8217;s Dolphin Reef &#8212; contact with the Dolphins might help restore Morad&#8217;s broken life. Morad&#8217;s father sells and mortgages everything he can, including his beautiful land in Northern Israel, and accompanies his son on this riveting journey. Filmed over the course of Morad&#8217;s four year therapy, the award winning DOLPHIN BOY is a profound confirmation of the healing power of nature, patience and unconditional love\u2014and a most under-reported and inspiring story about the relationship between Israel&#8217;s Arabs and Israel&#8217;s Jews. You can learn more at www.dolphinboyfilm.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to speak with the co- writer and co- director Yonatan Nir of Dolphin Boy. Seventeen year old Morad Azba&#8217;s innocent text message to a female classmate in an Arab village in the North of Israel triggers a brutal beating at the hands of the girl&#8217;s brother and his friends. Unable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reviewmeplease.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}