{"id":2359,"date":"2009-07-29T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T19:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2018-02-25T00:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T08:10:40","slug":"a-guilt-trip-down-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"a guilt-trip down memory lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I lived in Oakland, I was twice approached after sunset by a panhandler who announced, &#8220;I&#8217;m black but I&#8217;m not a mugger!&#8221;  Both times I flinched and, of course, felt guilty.<\/p>\n<p>It now occurs to me belatedly that, if young adult males are the most violent subset of naked apes, it&#8217;s not irrational to be wary of a solitary nocturnal specimen, regardless of his albedo.<\/p>\n<p>So he had a cute racket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I lived in Oakland, I was twice approached after sunset by a panhandler who announced, &#8220;I&#8217;m black but I&#8217;m not a mugger!&#8221; Both times I flinched and, of course, felt guilty. It now occurs to me belatedly that, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2359\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-psychology","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}