{"id":1302,"date":"2008-05-02T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T02:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2010-07-30T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T05:54:44","slug":"wright-douglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Wright &#038; Douglass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ari, over at the American history blog Edge of the American West, gives a nice historical perspective on the Jeremiah Wright \/ Barack Obama mess. Ari asserts that what Obama is really trying to do, by distancing himself from Wright, is to avoid being labeled a &#8220;neo-Douglassian&#8221; &#8212; good old Frederick Douglass from the 19th C. is apparently still too scary for much of white America. <a href=\"http:\/\/edgeofthewest.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/02\/postracial\/\">Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ari, over at the American history blog Edge of the American West, gives a nice historical perspective on the Jeremiah Wright \/ Barack Obama mess. Ari asserts that what Obama is really trying to do, by distancing himself from Wright, is to avoid being labeled a &#8220;neo-Douglassian&#8221; &#8212; good old Frederick Douglass from the 19th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-frederick-douglass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7317,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/7317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}