{"id":8596,"date":"2014-08-14T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8596"},"modified":"2017-06-23T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:25:58","slug":"a-little-more-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/a-little-more-black\/","title":{"rendered":"nina s."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140811_r25323a-690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8600\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140811_r25323a-690.jpg\" alt=\"nina simone and james baldwin\" width=\"598\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140811_r25323a-690.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140811_r25323a-690-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span class=\"caption\">Simone with James Baldwin in the early sixties.<\/span> <\/em><span class=\"credit\"><em> <span class=\"hideFromView\">Credit<\/span> Courtesy New York Public Library.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/08\/11\/raised-voice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nina simone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Giving a recital in the local library, at eleven, Eunice [Nina] saw her parents being removed from their front-row seats to make room for a white couple. She had been schooled by Miz Mazzy in proper deportment, but she nevertheless stood up and announced that if people wanted to hear her play they\u2019d better let her parents sit back down in the front row. There were some laughs, but her parents were returned to their seats. The next day, she remembered, she felt \u201cas if I had been flayed, and every slight, real or imagined, cut me raw. But, the skin grew back a little tougher, a little less innocent, and a little more black.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 36px; left: 161px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone with James Baldwin in the early sixties. Credit Courtesy New York Public Library. great article on nina simone: Giving a recital in the local library, at eleven, Eunice [Nina] saw her parents being removed from their front-row seats to make room for a white couple. She had been schooled by Miz Mazzy in proper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12903,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions\/12903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}