{"id":837,"date":"2012-08-09T06:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?p=837"},"modified":"2012-08-09T06:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:46:26","slug":"memphis-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/2012\/08\/09\/memphis-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis &#8211; 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reconstruction was about many things, but it&#8217;s hard to separate from the word, &#8220;legacy.&#8221; We talk about legacies in terms of current effects of past behaviors&#8230; history&#8217;s hand-me-downs. Reconstruction left legacies, of course, Jim Crow among the most prolific. One fine morning I found myself in Memphis, experiencing the irony I would later &#8216;anecdotalize&#8217; on the eve of Obama&#8217;s inauguration. I share this brief story as a way of tipping my hat, in acknowledgment of the background radiation of the legacy of Reconstruction that permeates the South. https:\/\/700billionreasons.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/19\/memphis\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconstruction was about many things, but it&#8217;s hard to separate from the word, &#8220;legacy.&#8221; We talk about legacies in terms of current effects of past behaviors&#8230; history&#8217;s hand-me-downs. Reconstruction left legacies, of course, Jim Crow among the most prolific. One fine morning I found myself in Memphis, experiencing the irony I would later &#8216;anecdotalize&#8217; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11236,11240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}