{"id":2165,"date":"2014-02-21T08:45:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T08:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/21\/a-yo-michelle-was-gonna-beat-on-barack-for\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:52","slug":"a-yo-michelle-was-gonna-beat-on-barack-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/21\/a-yo-michelle-was-gonna-beat-on-barack-for\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\u201cA yo, Michelle was gonna beat on Barack for taking dat selfie with dat chick at the Mandela wake! Whateva da fuk a selfie is! What\u2019s a selfie, some type of bailout?\u201d yelled Dontay from the kitchen, dumping Utz chips into a cracked flowery bowl. I was placing cubes into all of our cups and equally distributing the vodka like, \u201cSome for you and some for you \u2026\u201d \u201cWhat the fuck is a selfie?\u201d said Miss Sheryl. \u201cWhen a stupid person with a smartphone flicks themselves and looks at it,\u201d I said to the room. She replied with a raised eyebrow, \u201cOh?\u201d It\u2019s amazing how the news seems so instant to most from my generation with our iPhones, Wi-Fi, tablets and iPads, but actually it isn\u2019t. The idea of information being class-based as well became evident to me when I watched my friends talk about a weeks-old story as if it happened yesterday.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/02\/05\/too_poor_for_pop_culture\/\">Too poor for pop culture &#8211; Salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>No profound statements about inequality here, just a sobering sketch of life amongst Baltimore\u2019s poor.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA yo, Michelle was gonna beat on Barack for taking dat selfie with dat chick at the Mandela wake! Whateva da fuk a selfie is! What\u2019s a selfie, some type of bailout?\u201d yelled Dontay from the kitchen, dumping Utz chips into a cracked flowery bowl. I was placing cubes into all of our cups and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/21\/a-yo-michelle-was-gonna-beat-on-barack-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}