{"id":124,"date":"2007-09-27T23:29:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T07:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-09-27T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T07:29:52","slug":"some-people-just-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/some-people-just-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Some people just KNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from a <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/\/article\/20070928\/D8RU7KQ00.html\">public official<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened. You can quote me on that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the Jena, Louisiana DA&#8217;s explanation of why the protests against his arguably selective prosecution of black youths remained peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>The DA and his supporters were trying to make the case that he is not a racist.  I don&#8217;t know.  And given what I know about how the press covers such things, I&#8217;m inclined not to believe that the DA is channeling old George Wallace.  But that defense becomes a bit strained when this DA has looked out on the massive protests against his prosecution<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/content\/imglib\/51734.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nand concluded that peace was maintained only because Jesus put his calming white hand upon their black hearts.  What else could it be?  I mean, is it conceivable that a large black group could have possibly maintained peace on their own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from a public official: I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened. You can quote me on that. This is the Jena, Louisiana DA&#8217;s explanation of why the protests against his arguably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revealed-preference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}