{"id":328,"date":"2013-04-24T19:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theroacheshavenoking.com\/RoachesBlog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2013-04-24T19:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T23:25:36","slug":"the-n-word-circles-menacingly-above-the-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"The N-word circles menacingly above the bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-332\" alt=\"Huck Finn and Moses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Huck-Finn-and-Moses.jpg\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" \/>I recently had a talk with my nephew Huck Finn, who grew up eating through Mark Twain&#8217;s book. He was very upset. Because the &#8220;N-word&#8221; was no longer acceptable, he heard his ancestral home would be removed and replaced. What was worse, he didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;N-word&#8221; was. He had never come across it.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I squoze in an&#8217; I reckon I dint see &#8216;N-word&#8217; nowhere. I dont git it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t either. \u00a0Why take a book away if the offending term wasn&#8217;t in it?<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I hear the humuns sayin&#8217;, &#8216;Dont say the &#8220;N-word,&#8217; and then all do is &#8216;N-word, N-word, N-word.&#8217; Dont make no sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In all of the Bible, I haven&#8217;t seen &#8220;N-word&#8221; either. So if Huck Finn was endangered for a word he didn&#8217;t have, wasn&#8217;t I as well?<\/p>\n<p>More to come, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a talk with my nephew Huck Finn, who grew up eating through Mark Twain&#8217;s book. He was very upset. Because the &#8220;N-word&#8221; was no longer acceptable, he heard his ancestral home would be removed and replaced. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}