{"id":1832,"date":"2008-03-20T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/20\/black-guy-asks-for-change\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T14:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:13:23","slug":"black-guy-asks-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/black-guy-asks-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Guy Asks for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.&#8221;The time for change is now,&#8221; said the black guy, yelling at everyone within earshot for 20 straight minutes, practically begging America for change. &#8220;The need for change is stronger and more urgent than ever before. And only you&#8211;the people standing here today, and indeed all the people of this great nation&#8211;only you can deliver this change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/black_guy_asks_nation_for_change\">Read the rest of this compelling story here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.&#8221;The time for change is now,&#8221; said the black guy, yelling at everyone within earshot for 20 straight minutes, practically begging America for change. &#8220;The need for change is stronger and more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/black-guy-asks-for-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Guy Asks for Change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-ty","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}