{"id":40935,"date":"2015-04-21T20:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40935"},"modified":"2015-04-22T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:44:19","slug":"see-first-photos-of-matthew-mcconaughey-in-the-free-state-of-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40935","title":{"rendered":"See First Photos of Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3827295\/matthew-mcconaughey-free-state-of-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>See First Photos of Matthew McConaughey in <\/strong><\/em><strong>The Free State of Jones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCBegley\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah Begley<\/strong><\/a>, Culture Reporter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3827295\/matthew-mcconaughey-free-state-of-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timedotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/df-05888.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=color&amp;w=1680\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Matthew McConaughey stars in <em>The Free State of Jones<\/em> (Murray Close)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>He&#8217;s basically your Civil War boyfriend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For an actor, there\u2019s no better awards bait than an appearance-transforming role in a biographical war movie. World, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1124037\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Free State of Jones<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_McConaughey\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a> will star in the action-drama as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_Knight\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Knight<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a> farmer who led a southern rebellion against the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_Army\" target=\"_blank\">Confederates<\/a> during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>. He and his followers \u201cseceded\u201d from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\">Confederacy<\/a>, calling <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jones_County,_Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Jones County<\/a> \u201cThe Free State of Jones.\u201d After the war, he distinguished himself from fellow southerners once again by marrying a former slave named Rachel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3827295\/matthew-mcconaughey-free-state-of-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See First Photos of Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones Time 2015-04-21 Sarah Begley, Culture Reporter Matthew McConaughey stars in The Free State of Jones (Murray Close) He&#8217;s basically your Civil War boyfriend For an actor, there\u2019s no better awards bait than an appearance-transforming role in a biographical war movie. World, meet The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,459,8,1459,20],"tags":[5505,18372,1457,1456,4374,19952,19951,19784,3521],"class_list":["post-40935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-usa","tag-gary-ross","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-newt-knight","tag-newton-knight","tag-rachel-knight","tag-sarah-begley","tag-the-free-state-of-jones","tag-time","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}