{"id":4977,"date":"2017-12-29T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2017-12-29T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T18:53:07","slug":"two-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/thought-about\/two-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/music\/henry-rollins-white-america-couldnt-handle-what-black-america-deals-with-every-day-7134994\">Henry Rollins: White America Couldn&#8217;t Handle What Black America Deals With Every Day<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I\u2019m an educated, Caucasian, heterosexual male. Does this ensure I will have success and live the American Dream? Obviously it doesn\u2019t, but it damn sure drops me on second base with a great opportunity to steal third.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rollins talks about going out to eat after a show.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This is when I understood one of the reasons for the visible display of wealth. My whiteness assured them that I could pay for my meal. Ice-T and his guys had to demonstrate their ability to pay by literally wearing a show of wealth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think about this a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Rollins: White America Couldn&#8217;t Handle What Black America Deals With Every Day I\u2019m an educated, Caucasian, heterosexual male. Does this ensure I will have success and live the American Dream? Obviously it doesn\u2019t, but it damn sure drops me on second base with a great opportunity to steal third. &#8230; Rollins talks about going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - Two Americas","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105],"tags":[1225,1224,1226],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thought-about","tag-america","tag-henry-rollins","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}