{"id":1957,"date":"2009-10-23T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2009-10-23T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:36:02","slug":"black-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Black America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere is all over Pat Buchanan&#8217;s latest screed about how America&#8217;s culture (i.e., white culture) is being destroyed.  A great response is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,943970,00.html\">this one<\/a>, in which Ralph Ellison &#8212; yes, that Ralph Ellison &#8212; argues that America has been shaped by African-Americans to a far greater extent than most people realize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere is all over Pat Buchanan&#8217;s latest screed about how America&#8217;s culture (i.e., white culture) is being destroyed. A great response is this one, in which Ralph Ellison &#8212; yes, that Ralph Ellison &#8212; argues that America has been shaped by African-Americans to a far greater extent than most people realize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-vz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}