{"id":665,"date":"2007-09-25T22:04:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=665"},"modified":"2007-09-25T22:04:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:04:35","slug":"ever-heard-of-the-jena-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of the Jena Six?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, neither had I &#8211; until an American friend drew my attention to the case. It shows just how deep racial divisions still run in the United States. Check out an account <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jena_Six\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI wondered why I hadn&#8217;t heard of the case, since I read the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; which is the most liberal daily newspaper in Britain. So I checked the newspaper&#8217;s web site and found that the situation had been covered in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,2173842,00.html\">an article<\/a>, but this was published last Friday when I was away in Sarajevo &#8211; a city which still bears the physical and psychological scars of ethnic divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, neither had I &#8211; until an American friend drew my attention to the case. It shows just how deep racial divisions still run in the United States. Check out an account here. I wondered why I hadn&#8217;t heard of the case, since I read the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; which is the most liberal daily newspaper in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}