{"id":993,"date":"2008-07-04T10:53:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=993"},"modified":"2008-07-04T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:53:58","slug":"jesse-helms-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/04\/jesse-helms-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Helms Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/feature\/1995\/05\/bates.html\">a hateful old bastard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And long after die-hard segregationists like George Wallace and Strom Thurmond began courting black voters, Helms fueled white fears by opposing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whistling &#8220;Dixie&#8221; while standing next to Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, and supporting apartheid in South Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good riddence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he was a hateful old bastard: And long after die-hard segregationists like George Wallace and Strom Thurmond began courting black voters, Helms fueled white fears by opposing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whistling &#8220;Dixie&#8221; while standing next to Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, and supporting apartheid in South Africa. Good [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}