{"id":1754,"date":"2008-09-13T15:35:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2008-09-13T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T14:35:44","slug":"racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you can say for this election: it will certainly clear up any doubt about whether racism can swing the outcome of a national political race in America. I know that Harriet disagrees with me violently in my pessimism, but <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/09\/new_mccain_ad_badly_distorts_o_1.php\">this ad<\/a> seems to me a Willie Horton-type torpedo aimed at Obama&#8217;s campaign. The message is quite transparent: &#8220;he wants your children to be sexually active, and he&#8217;s <em>black<\/em>&#8220;. It&#8217;s very cheering to see the number of Americans who are really deeply shocked by this. As I say, we shall see if there are enough of them to win. <br \/>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you can say for this election: it will certainly clear up any doubt about whether racism can swing the outcome of a national political race in America. I know that Harriet disagrees with me violently in my pessimism, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1754\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}