{"id":227740,"date":"2026-07-29T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/227740\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:32:25","slug":"ptsd-guilt-and-alienation-watching-the-odyssey-in-israel-hits-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/227740\/","title":{"rendered":"PTSD, Guilt and Alienation: Watching &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; in Israel Hits Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">As Israelis, we are so deep in our terrible odyssey that we have lost the ability to see how we appear from the outside. Nolan&#8217;s interpretation provides a resounding slap of reality<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">It seems everything has already been said about today&#8217;s greatest Hollywood director, Christopher Nolan, and his adaptation of Homer&#8217;s epic. It&#8217;s not immediately clear how a Hollywood film about a mythical hero who embarked on a journey across the seas more than 3,000 years ago and encountered a Cyclops along the way could possibly be relevant to present-day Israel. But the real story lies in the soul of that man, not in the incredible events that accompanied him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Israelis, we are so deep in our terrible odyssey that we have lost the ability to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[496,423,37,7401,3568,9832],"class_list":["post-227740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-mental-health","tag-trauma"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117003520793298410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}