{"id":5402,"date":"2013-07-16T20:44:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2013-07-16T20:44:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T00:44:03","slug":"remembering-that-black-boy-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5402","title":{"rendered":"Remembering That Black Boy in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They weren&#8217;t his people, and they wanted to make sure he knew that. Or maybe they were afraid of him, though they wouldn&#8217;t have admitted it. Alan Jacobs has written a story about a childhood experience in Birmingham in which he and his friends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/jacobs\/the-walking-boy\/\">picked up stones to assault a black boy<\/a> who walked through their neighborhood. Alan didn&#8217;t throw a stone or yell at this Other Person, but he did stand with his friends as the boy&#8217;s enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They weren&#8217;t his people, and they wanted to make sure he knew that. Or maybe they were afraid of him, though they wouldn&#8217;t have admitted it. Alan Jacobs has written a story about a childhood experience in Birmingham in which he and his friends picked up stones to assault a black boy who walked through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering That Black Boy in Birmingham<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}