{"id":69,"date":"2006-02-22T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T00:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-02-23T18:46:55","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T22:46:55","slug":"august-wilson-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"August Wilson plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading <u>Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom<\/u> and <u>Jitney<\/u>, two plays by August Wilson. They were my reading assignment for Black History Month this year. I posted my reactions to them as a comment on Sister Judy&#8217;s blog at <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/jscothammerquist.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/black-history-month-contest.html\">Mrs Hammer&#8217;s House: The Black History Month Contest<\/a>. And thanks, Judy, for calling me Brother Dean B. I usually only hear that kind of thing at rehearsals for the Project Manna concert (and I&#8217;m not in the habit of using that form of address myself; I had to go back and edit this post to put it in).<br \/>\nAs a bonus for reading them, I was googling &#8220;August Wilson Jitney&#8221;, I think, at work, and that screen was up when my mentor walked in. He said his wife would have been delighted to see me reading that &#8212; she teaches African-American history. Honest, though, I gave myself that February reading assignment out of my own interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom and Jitney, two plays by August Wilson. They were my reading assignment for Black History Month this year. I posted my reactions to them as a comment on Sister Judy&#8217;s blog at Mrs Hammer&#8217;s House: The Black History Month Contest. And thanks, Judy, for calling me Brother Dean &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=69\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August Wilson plays&#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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}