{"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 Chicago as a city ate fine, but southside Chicago is one of the most violent places to be, or so it may seem. We were brung up on the belief that people like us were hoodlums or bangers. They saw us as nuisances and future murderers. But we saw that as a lie [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}