{"id":2460,"date":"2017-11-15T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:08:26","slug":"welldamn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/11\/welldamn\/","title":{"rendered":"WellDamn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Laguna Beach\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/haroldito\/37629772164\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Laguna Beach\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4581\/37629772164_ce0a035232_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>Laguna Beach a few weeks ago. Photo by my dear Janet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s when I noticed that homeless people all have better shoes than I do that I felt anxiety going up a bit. On that beach day I saw a pair of Jordan\u2019s by the thrash cans and wanted to pick them up. No judging.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Kaepernick is on GQ\u2019s cover but my brothas are disappearing. They\u2019re around, I see them, have them on the phone, text them. We have a bowl, a drink, talking politics and sports. And one day poof, gone. Nothing for days, which become months. There\u2019s something terrifying in having your peers, your friends vanishing in a 24\/7 connected world. Anxiety going up a bit more. Black men are really not doing well. We\u2019re hiding it in plain sight. Stay strong, brother. Don\u2019t forget to close your eyes and to stretch that body, it helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laguna Beach a few weeks ago. Photo by my dear Janet. It\u2019s when I noticed that homeless people all have better shoes than I do that I felt anxiety going up a bit. On that beach day I saw a pair of Jordan\u2019s by the thrash cans and wanted to pick them up. No judging. [&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\/2460"}],"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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}