{"id":62,"date":"2007-01-19T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-01-19T13:36:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T17:36:59","slug":"proud-to-be-a-virginian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Proud to be a Virginian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can scarcely believe it.  Just as I was about to write about Frank Hargrove, the Republican lawmaker in Virginia who told black Virginians to &#8220;just get over&#8221; slavery, John Warner, our senior Republican Senator comes out against President Surge and says he&#8217;ll vote for the Senate  resolution opposing escalation.  Opposing the Prez isn&#8217;t just for the left anymore.  Way to go, John!<br \/>\nAs for Hargrove, he made a factual error in his claims.  He said that none of the lawmakers now sitting had anything to do with slavery.  Ever hear of Jim Crow, Frank?  Slavery: The Sequel?  I&#8217;m younger than Hargrove, and I remember the Whites Only signs and all the other trappings of American apartheid.  Slavery didn&#8217;t end with the Emancipation Proclamation.\u00c2\u00a0 State-supported oppression lasted well into Hargood&#8217;s adult life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can scarcely believe it. Just as I was about to write about Frank Hargrove, the Republican lawmaker in Virginia who told black Virginians to &#8220;just get over&#8221; slavery, John Warner, our senior Republican Senator comes out against President Surge &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=62\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}