{"id":36555,"date":"2013-07-15T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36555"},"modified":"2013-07-15T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:02:43","slug":"trayvon-martin-and-emmett-till-and-how-concrete-became-martins-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/15\/trayvon-martin-and-emmett-till-and-how-concrete-became-martins-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till, and How Concrete Became Martin&#8217;s &#8220;Weapon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130715Uprising\/2013_07_15_smith.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130715Uprising\/2013_07_15_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/trayvon_emmett.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>President Obama, who had stayed away from making any comments during the trial of George Zimmerman, made a statement on Sunday saying \u201cwe are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He urged people to take action against gun control as one way to honor Trayvon Martin. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, soon after the killing, the President had remarked, \u201cIf I Had a Son, He\u2019d Look Like Trayvon Martin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Mychal Denzel Smith, blogger at TheNation.com and a Knobler Fellow at the Nation Institute. He is also a freelance writer and social commentator.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama, who had stayed away from making any comments during the trial of George Zimmerman, made a statement on Sunday saying \u201cwe are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.\u201d He urged people to take action against gun control as one way to honor Trayvon Martin. Last year, soon after the killing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36566,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions\/36566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}