{"id":2157,"date":"2015-09-09T08:43:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2015-09-09T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:43:52","slug":"back-in-the-ol-hometown-ctd-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"Back in the ol’ hometown, ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up until the time of the awful shootings in Charleston, I was uneasily willing to accept that somebody might fly the Confederate battle flag as an expression of sympathy for the largely-abandoned doctrine of states rights, or an expression of (misguided) love for the so-called culture of the south<\/a>. Since then, however, nobody can fail to understand that its display is neither more nor less than a defiant expression of plain-vanilla racism; that is what that terrible event redefined it as.<\/p>\n

Now watch the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up until the time of the awful shootings in Charleston, I was uneasily willing to accept that somebody might fly the Confederate battle flag as an expression of sympathy for the largely-abandoned doctrine of states rights, or an expression of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}