{"id":2892,"date":"2013-08-09T14:49:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2013-08-09T14:49:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:49:15","slug":"the-raven-chides-his-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/the-raven-chides-his-blackness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raven Chides His Blackness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>AJAX:<\/b> Can he not be sociable?<\/p>\n<p><b>ULYSSES:<\/b> The raven chides his blackness.<\/p>\n<p>                                     (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/troilus_cressida\/troilus_cressida.2.3.html\">Troilus and Cressida<\/a>,<\/i> Act 2, Scene 3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier today, in a particularly paradoxical press conference &#8212; one in which Barack Obama really got down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanjoelny.com\/obamacare-continues-to-falter\/\">brass tax<\/a> &#8212; Obama said of Russian president Putin:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This for some reason recalled to me that straight-laced and model student, with the perfect military posture, whom we&#8217;ve all come to know so well:<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/barack-obama-smoking-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/barack-obama-smoking-1.jpg\" alt=\"barack-obama-smoking-1\" width=\"241\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2893\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/barack-obama-smoking-1.jpg 241w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/barack-obama-smoking-1-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/B-O-Doper-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/B-O-Doper-1.jpg\" alt=\"B O Doper (1)\" width=\"231\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2894\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m4mii7pPR71qkkaefo1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m4mii7pPR71qkkaefo1_500.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_m4mii7pPR71qkkaefo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m4mii7pPR71qkkaefo1_500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m4mii7pPR71qkkaefo1_500-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Early-Obama-The-Choom-Gan-008-620x433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Early-Obama-The-Choom-Gan-008-620x433.jpg\" alt=\"Early-Obama-The-Choom-Gan-008-620x433\" width=\"620\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2901\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Early-Obama-The-Choom-Gan-008-620x433.jpg 620w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Early-Obama-The-Choom-Gan-008-620x433-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZ2lTieJ0no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJAX: Can he not be sociable? ULYSSES: The raven chides his blackness. (Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 3) Earlier today, in a particularly paradoxical press conference &#8212; one in which Barack Obama really got down to brass tax &#8212; Obama said of Russian president Putin: &#8220;He&#8217;s got that kind of slouch, looking like the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/the-raven-chides-his-blackness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Raven Chides His Blackness?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[273],"tags":[2291,2295,2602,2294,2296,2289,2288,2293,2290,2292,2287],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}