{"id":1075,"date":"2013-05-06T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2013-05-06T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:19:04","slug":"two-articles-ill-be-teaching-with-someday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Two articles I&#8217;ll be teaching with someday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates, with another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/05\/opinion\/sunday\/coates-beyond-the-code-of-the-streets.html?_r=2&#038;\">short essay<\/a> I&#8217;ll likely be using in a classroom someday.   In trying to find this article, I found all manner of internet commentary, most of which drew into relief the questions I&#8217;d ask a group: <\/p>\n<p>who does this code apply to?  what would a code created by young Asian men look like?  By Hispanic women?  By white lacrosse players living in the suburbs?   <\/p>\n<p>And what do these codes mean in the face of how power is distributed in society?   Whose behavior gets laughed as &#8220;boys-will-be-boys&#8221; and whose behavior lands people in jail?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/06\/sports\/basketball\/brittney-griner-proudly-part-of-a-mission-to-help-others-live-in-truth.html?ref=brittneygriner\">personal essay by Brittany Griner. <\/a>   This is money: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> It\u2019s taken me a long time to figure out exactly where I fit. During that journey, I realized that everyone has a unique place in this world. I also discovered that the more open I was with my family and friends, the more I embraced others, and the more committed I became to doing the things I love, like basketball, skating and, of course, eating bacon (the greatest food of all time), the more love and confidence I received in return.<\/p>\n<p>I just had to hang in there and be myself. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The more open I was with my family and friends, the more I embraced them, and the more committed I became to doing the things I love, the more love and confidence I received in return.  <\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates, with another short essay I&#8217;ll likely be using in a classroom someday. In trying to find this article, I found all manner of internet commentary, most of which drew into relief the questions I&#8217;d ask a group: who does this code apply to? what would a code created by young Asian men look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1075\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two articles I&#8217;ll be teaching with someday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-hl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}