{"id":16110,"date":"2016-11-09T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rikersfilm.org\/?page_id=16110"},"modified":"2017-03-28T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:25:21","slug":"synopsis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/rikers\/synopsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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