{"id":50503,"date":"2015-01-21T05:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50503"},"modified":"2015-01-21T07:59:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:59:25","slug":"i-have-a-dog-whistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50503","title":{"rendered":"I Have A Dog Whistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/MLK-Menu-Borgata-289173601.html\">This is why I was careful not to eat some my favorite foods on Martin Luther King Da<\/a>y: I didn\u2019t want to offend anybody.<\/p>\n<p>I intentionally skipped Quaker Instant Grits for breakfast, passed up Kentucky Fried Chicken with fried okra and orange pop for lunch, and made certain to avoid Famous Dave\u2019s Bar-B-Q Ribs and corn bread for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years of \u201ccivil rights\u201d has transformed American into a place where menu choices made to honor Dr. King\u2019s name are twisted into proof of hatred of his memory.  I wonder if this is the kind of tolerant, diverse, color-blind society he was hoping for when he said \u201cI have a dream?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> in the future, it will be considered &#8220;racist&#8221; to point out that Michael Jordan could dunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is why I was careful not to eat some my favorite foods on Martin Luther King Day: I didn\u2019t want to offend anybody. I intentionally skipped Quaker Instant Grits for breakfast, passed up Kentucky Fried Chicken with fried okra and orange pop for lunch, and made certain to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50511,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50503\/revisions\/50511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}