{"id":1754,"date":"2014-01-31T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2014-01-31T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:20:21","slug":"paul-revere-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2014\/01\/paul-revere-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Revere Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-8gNkUJ23-aA\/UuvAEtIWpfI\/AAAAAAAABRc\/Lp2CYaM1NAA\/s800\/00040810_1-thumb4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulrwilliamsproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website you ought to check out if you want to know more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First African-American architect member of the American Institute of Architects in 1923. First certified African-American architect west of the Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Orphan at four, he was the only African-American student in his elementary school. That stuff sounds familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Like Chappelle says, <em>\u201cyou might not want to be the first nigga to do anything in this world.\u201d<\/em> Paul did though. Most of his work is things people wanted, not so much what HE wanted. People would fight even with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_lloyd_wright\" target=\"_blank\">FLW<\/a> to get what they want so obviously Paul wasn\u2019t going to get lynched for an interior. No black man even today can say <em>\u201cFuck you, I am the architect\u201d<\/em> to his clients.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m wondering what his output would have been if he had been truly free. I mean he did these:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-CcfvJv70SxQ\/Uuu-srKFCvI\/AAAAAAAABRU\/bVmXQe8Q_fw\/s640\/paulwilliamsstuff.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a couple other modern stuff. The dude knew his shit. Look at his own house, in Los Angeles:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-ul5RdVlM-_A\/Uuu-r9ij0NI\/AAAAAAAABRM\/SzWLcgvL-8Q\/s640\/prwhouse.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Far from the classic Spanish or American colonial revival he did so often.<\/p>\n<p>SUPER MASSIVE SIGH OVER RACE AND STUFF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website you ought to check out if you want to know more. First African-American architect member of the American Institute of Architects in 1923. First certified African-American architect west of the Mississippi. Orphan at four, he was the only African-American student in his elementary school. That stuff sounds familiar. Like Chappelle says, \u201cyou might not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}