{"id":485,"date":"2006-10-04T18:37:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/10\/the-last-king-o.html"},"modified":"2006-10-04T18:37:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:37:38","slug":"the-last-king-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/10\/the-last-king-o.html","title":{"rendered":"The Last King of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/thelastkingofscotland_bigposter_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"148\" alt=\"Thelastkingofscotland_bigposter_1\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/thelastkingofscotland_bigposter_1.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m dying to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.foxsearchlight.com\/thelastkingofscotland\/\">&quot;The Last King of Scotland.&quot;<\/a>&nbsp; It opened on Sept. 27 but in my city it&#8217;s only showing on one obscure screen and they aren&#8217;t running it until this weekend.&nbsp; What gives!&nbsp; It&#8217;s the story of the personal physician to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idi_Amin\">Idi Amin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/thelastkingofscotland_bigposter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/thelastkingofscotland_bigposter_1.jpg\"><\/a>I&#8217;ve been to Uganda and seen the remnants of this genocide and oppression.&nbsp; &nbsp;I spoke with a young Ugandan on the airplane who was full of hope for his country.&nbsp; He believed that all Uganda (and Africa) needed was a dozen more Mandela&#8217;s to counter act the string of oppressive leadership that Africa has had.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I pray that he is one of them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dying to see &quot;The Last King of Scotland.&quot;&nbsp; It opened on Sept. 27 but in my city it&#8217;s only showing on one obscure screen and they aren&#8217;t running it until this weekend.&nbsp; What gives!&nbsp; It&#8217;s the story of the personal physician to Idi Amin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Last King of Scotland - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/10\/the-last-king-o.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Last King of Scotland - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m dying to see &quot;The Last King of Scotland.&quot;&nbsp; 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