{"id":251,"date":"2024-06-23T16:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/?p=251"},"modified":"2024-06-23T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T16:50:56","slug":"a-sign-of-the-times-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"A Sign of the Times 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Seana Sperling<\/p>\n<p>That rainy day on the bus, you sat in front of me and kept turning around. Then you alternated between sneers and whispered insults through your bushy, white mustache. I had no idea why this Stranger; this older, white man was bothering me. At my stop, you followed me off the bus and up the block, faintly whistling off-key and then clearing your throat. I took a photo of you, which somehow got lost at the Drugstore Photo Counter. A year later I saw you again, in full Motorcycle-Police regalia, as we marched with our Peace Signs towards the City Center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Seana Sperling That rainy day on the bus, you sat in front of me and kept turning around. Then you alternated between sneers and whispered insults through your bushy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsociety-civilworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}