{"id":3400,"date":"2015-06-20T09:24:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2015-06-20T09:24:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:24:54","slug":"charleston-some-guided-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=3400","title":{"rendered":"Charleston: Some guided reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grateful to friends who have shared thoughtful words about Charleston this week as I continue to try to process things.<\/p>\n<p>The three that have helped my understanding the\u00a0most I&#8217;m sharing here:<\/p>\n<p>A column from Gene Patterson, written in 1963, about the Alabama church bombing, posted by my friend Michael Sluss. I&#8217;ve read it four\u00a0times. I will read it again. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/uncategorized\/4761\/a-flower-for-the-graves\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A poem, by Kwame Alexander, called A Thousand Winters, which I hope you can see if you follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kwame.alexander.7?fref=nf&amp;pnref=story\">this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And an essay on why we should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a35793\/charleston-shooting-discussion\/\">speak about the unspeakable<\/a>, brought to my attention by author\u00a0Gigi Amateau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grateful to friends who have shared thoughtful words about Charleston this week as I continue to try to process things. The three that have helped my understanding the\u00a0most I&#8217;m sharing here: A column from Gene Patterson, written in 1963, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=3400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}