{"id":648,"date":"2006-08-15T01:50:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T05:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2006\/08\/how_far_have_we_come_really\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T01:50:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T05:50:23","slug":"how_far_have_we_come_really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2006\/08\/how_far_have_we_come_really\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW FAR HAVE WE COME, REALLY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/News\/story?id=466\" target=\"_blank\">George Will<\/A> can say something as racist as this on TV without a firestorm: <BR><BR><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;When you see Lamont standing there on victory night with Jesse Jackson looming over one shoulder, and Rev. Al Sharpton looming over the other, where does the Democratic death wish come from&#8230;? &#8221; [paraphrase]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><BR><BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/ThisWeek\/abc_ReichRaddatzWill_060811_nr.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"ABC News This Week\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When George Will can say something as racist as this on TV without a firestorm: &#8220;When you see Lamont standing there on victory night with Jesse Jackson looming over one shoulder, and Rev. Al Sharpton looming over the other, where does the Democratic death wish come from&#8230;? &#8221; [paraphrase]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}