{"id":18851,"date":"2019-10-21T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/?post_type=films&#038;p=18851"},"modified":"2022-12-26T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T22:10:38","slug":"cooked-survival-by-zip-code","status":"publish","type":"films","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/cooked-survival-by-zip-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooked: Survival by Zip Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the summer of 1995, Chicago experienced an unthinkable disaster, when extremely high humidity and a layer of heat-retaining pollution drove the heat index up to more than 126 degrees. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooked: Survival by Zip Code<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tells the story of this tragic heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When peeled away from the shocking headlines the story reveals the less newsworthy but long-term crisis of pernicious poverty, economic, and social isolation and racism. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooked<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 1995, Chicago experienced an unthinkable disaster, when extremely high humidity and a layer of heat-retaining pollution drove the heat index up to more than 126 degrees. 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