{"id":221,"date":"2003-02-14T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/01\/07\/jim-crow-visits-the-embarcadero\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T00:21:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T07:21:28","slug":"jim-crow-visits-the-embarcadero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/02\/14\/jim-crow-visits-the-embarcadero\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Crow visits the Embarcadero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yowza! I weigh 182 pounds &#8211; I feel so much younger with this 15-pound difference, and much more energetic.While downtown this morning, a Southern tourist asked loudly to his friend &#8220;why white people would want to visit SF, when there are so many of those sickly homeless colored people&#8221;? I wanted to tell him off (I suspect his name was Jim Crow), but declined. An African-American woman next to me shook her head. Ugh. I had several comebacks prepared in my head later that day to mentally pound him into a stain. Timing, natch.<\/p>\n<p>I finally find my grade report in a filing cabinet down the hall from where the class meets, where I&#8217;ve received three A&#8217;s and one A-plus! Hooah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/02\/14\/jim-crow-visits-the-embarcadero\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yowza! I weigh 182 pounds &#8211; I feel so much younger with this 15-pound difference, and much more energetic.While downtown this morning, a Southern tourist asked loudly to his friend &#8220;why white people would want to visit SF, when there are so many of those sickly homeless colored people&#8221;? I wanted to tell him off &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/02\/14\/jim-crow-visits-the-embarcadero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jim Crow visits the Embarcadero&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/02\/14\/jim-crow-visits-the-embarcadero\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleanse","category-new-college-of-california","category-politics","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}