{"id":721,"date":"2008-04-04T15:54:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T20:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/04\/forty-years-after-the-bullet\/"},"modified":"2008-04-05T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T14:51:07","slug":"forty-years-after-the-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/04\/forty-years-after-the-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty Years After the Bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s there to say?  I wish I could write a positive piece.  About the progress made, about the things we can do, about the hopes I have.  But the past couple of months &#8211; of seeing national networks let Pat Buchanan pontificate on someone else&#8217;s racism,  watching Marvin Arrington attacked for doing his best to help young black men, and hearing Lou Dobbs get upset about those &#8220;cotton pickin'&#8221; black leaders who dare object to his ignorant emanations &#8211; I&#8217;ve got nothing.  Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll just link back to this, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/13\/mlk-jr-memorial-groundbreaking\/\">groundbreaking for the national MLK, Jr. memorial in DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s there to say? I wish I could write a positive piece. About the progress made, about the things we can do, about the hopes I have. But the past couple of months &#8211; of seeing national networks let Pat Buchanan pontificate on someone else&#8217;s racism, watching Marvin Arrington attacked for doing his best to [&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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}