{"id":4051,"date":"2026-10-21T22:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:18:40","slug":"blonde-in-the-congo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"Blonde in the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2026 Official Selection: Screenplay \u2013 Screenplay &#8211; Feature Film<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/thumbnail?id=12c279i8_fwvHPEB1HGutHcra-fcuvLvc&amp;sz=w515\" alt=\"Blonde in the Congo\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ceremony date &amp; tickets<\/strong> \u2014 to be announced<\/p>\n<p><em>Let the culture clashes and love affairs begin.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Writer(s):<\/strong> Bren Bennington Dahl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> Not Specified<\/p>\n<p>An adventure seeking college grad girl who wants to see the world, joins the Peace Corps and gets posted in the African Congo.  There she takes a wild ride juggling language challenges and culture clashes while falling in love with two very different fellow volunteers, who end up changing her life forever.<\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Official Selection: Screenplay \u2013 Screenplay &#8211; Feature Film Ceremony date &amp; tickets \u2014 to be announced Let the culture clashes and love affairs begin. Writer(s): Bren Bennington Dahl Language: English Country: Not Specified An adventure seeking college grad girl who wants to see the world, joins the Peace Corps and gets posted in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=4051\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blonde in the Congo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sherman-oaks-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}