{"id":1696,"date":"2008-11-03T13:24:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2008-11-03T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:24:50","slug":"brothers-gonna-work-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/03\/brothers-gonna-work-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother&#8217;s Gonna Work It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surely I am not the only one who wants to prod and taunt the fear mongers?\u00c2\u00a0 The Obama&#8217;s a Scary! Black!! Muslim!!! Socialist!!!! crowd have been so ridiculous on their face that it&#8217;s never really moved me to engage them.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s like arguing with a moon-landing conspiracy theorist.\u00c2\u00a0 The only value in engaging with them is going to be entertainment value.\u00c2\u00a0 But it&#8217;s kind of mean spirited, so you really ought not to.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll just allow myself this 1990 effort from Public Enemy (putting aside more tempting tracks from Paris or X-Clan):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PrHHAZFPmMY[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may remember the context of this video.\u00c2\u00a0 Virginia Beach, 1989.\u00c2\u00a0 Tis a long way between there and here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely I am not the only one who wants to prod and taunt the fear mongers?\u00c2\u00a0 The Obama&#8217;s a Scary! Black!! Muslim!!! Socialist!!!! crowd have been so ridiculous on their face that it&#8217;s never really moved me to engage them.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s like arguing with a moon-landing conspiracy theorist.\u00c2\u00a0 The only value in engaging with them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-society","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}