{"id":2857,"date":"2002-08-28T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2002-08-28T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2002-08-28T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2002-08-28T13:51:47","slug":"john-gray-has-a-soulmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"JOHN GRAY HAS A SOULMATE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/blog\/2002_08_25_armedliberal_archive.html#80808558\" target=\"browser\">The pomo idiot below<\/a> has an English buddy&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/screed\/monbiot.html\">Lileks<\/a> rips him a new one.<br \/>\nThis reminds me&#8230;<br \/>\nWhen I was a mere sprout, given to organizing demonstrations aginst the Invasion of Cambodia and suchlike, I was invited to join fellow upper-middle-class radical sprouts in &#8216;organizing&#8217; poor black kids at a youth center in Will Rodgers Park in South-Central L.A.<br \/>\nI spent some time down there, realized that I was a pathetic loser at hoops and <i>futball<\/i>, but managed to talk to a fair number of the kids and their folks as I helped them with homework. And quickly realized that the only ones pushing for the big R were the middle-class white kids from UCLA. The folks we were talking to &#8230; the poor folks &#8230; wanted a job at the GM plant in Van Nuys, a house with a fence in a safe neighborhood, and good enough schools that their kids could go to college and become arrogant clowns like we were.<br \/>\nJust a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pomo idiot below has an English buddy&#8230;and Lileks rips him a new one. This reminds me&#8230; When I was a mere sprout, given to organizing demonstrations aginst the Invasion of Cambodia and suchlike, I was invited to join fellow upper-middle-class radical sprouts in &#8216;organizing&#8217; poor black kids at a youth center in Will Rodgers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}