{"id":87,"date":"2016-03-04T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=87"},"modified":"2016-03-04T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:16:20","slug":"chi-raq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2016\/03\/04\/chi-raq\/","title":{"rendered":"CHI-RAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by CHRISTIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chicago as a city ate fine, but southside Chicago<br \/>\nis one of the most violent places to be, or so it may seem.<br \/>\nWe were brung up on the belief that people like us<br \/>\nwere hoodlums or bangers. They saw us as nuisances<br \/>\nand future murderers. But we saw that as a lie<br \/>\nand expressed that in rhymes. To us were were<br \/>\na community, a place where kids run and play.<br \/>\nNow don&#8217;t get me wrong. There are killers and thieves,<br \/>\nbut that&#8217;s not what we&#8217;ve chosen to be. I think<br \/>\nof the southside as home, not something people<br \/>\nshould be afraid of. Killers and thieves want you<br \/>\nto believe this. But I encourage you to go see places<br \/>\nlike Oakland Park, instead of acting like you&#8217;re scared<br \/>\nof the dark. Killers and thieves that&#8217;s what they want<br \/>\nyou to believe. But you believe 1 + 2 must be 3,<br \/>\nand that the opposite of red is green. So you believe<br \/>\nwhat you can conceive. Like President Obama<br \/>\nas a boy\u00a0growing up on the southside of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CHRISTIAN<\/p>\n<p>Chicago as a city ate fine, but southside Chicago<br \/> is one of the most violent places to be, or so it may seem.<br \/> We were brung up on the belief that people like us<br \/> were hoodlums or bangers. They saw us as nuisances<br \/> and future murderers. But we saw [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}