{"id":3111,"date":"2017-04-16T18:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T17:41:10","slug":"the-lost-city-of-z-how-to-make-enemies-in-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"The Lost City of Z:\u00a0 \u00a0How to Make Enemies in the Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a longer version of articles written for both the<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/comment\/comment\/lost-city-of-z-hollywood-wanted-indiana-jones-but-percival-fawcett-was-a-rude-racist-a3499816.html\" target=\"_blank\">London Evening Standard <\/a><\/em>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2017\/04\/12\/the-hero-of-the-lost-city-of-z-was-no-hero\/?utm_term=.edc185a2a23e#comments\" target=\"_blank\">the<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2017\/04\/12\/the-hero-of-the-lost-city-of-z-was-no-hero\/?utm_term=.edc185a2a23e#comments\" target=\"_blank\"> Washington Post<\/a> <\/em>when <em>The\u00a0Lost City of Z<\/em> was released .<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Writer and explorer Hugh Thomson argues that new movie<em> The Lost City of Z<\/em> gives a totally false impression of its real-life hero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3091\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/images-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>With many a jungle drum, this week sees the release and promotion of <em>The Lost City Of Z.\u00a0 <\/em>Based on the bestselling book of the same name by David Grann, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wwjtdOqTmrA\" target=\"_blank\">the film proudly proclaims <\/a>that it is <strong>\u2018based on an incredible true story\u2019<\/strong> in which heroic British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) \u2018journeys to the Amazon and discovers the traces of an ancient, advanced civilization\u2019.\u00a0<strong>And yet it is a quite bizarre distortion of the truth. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exploration of the Amazon has been one of the epic undertakings of the last few centuries and is still ongoing: uncontacted tribes are still being found in the jungle.\u00a0<strong> It has seen many heroic figures. But Fawcett was not one of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?page_id=3089\" target=\"_blank\">see the full expanded article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a longer version of articles written for both the London Evening Standard and the Washington Post when The\u00a0Lost City of Z was released .\u00a0 &#8220;Writer and explorer Hugh Thomson argues that new movie The Lost City of Z gives a totally false impression of its real-life hero.&#8221; With many a jungle drum, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peru","category-uncategorized","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}