{"id":688,"date":"2013-07-01T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T21:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=688"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:53:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T16:53:41","slug":"persecuting-rappers-in-the-arab-world-and-here-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/07\/01\/persecuting-rappers-in-the-arab-world-and-here-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Persecuting rappers in the Arab world&#8211;and here in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/07\/rappers-nielson-ap-650.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-687\" title=\"rappers nielson ap 650\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/07\/rappers-nielson-ap-650-300x178.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/07\/rappers-nielson-ap-650-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/07\/rappers-nielson-ap-650-500x297.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/07\/rappers-nielson-ap-650.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is my <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/07\/arab-rappers-are-landing-in-jail-for-lyricsa-lot-like-american-rappers\/277448\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">latest piece<\/span><\/a><\/span>, this time for\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>, on the persecution of rappers in the Arab world. \u00a0My point here is that although we tend to view this kind of government suppression of art and political speech as foreign, it&#8217;s actually quite common here in the USA as well. \u00a0In fact, we have a long tradition of it, especially when it comes to hip hop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here is my latest piece, this time for\u00a0The Atlantic, on the persecution of rappers in the Arab world. \u00a0My point here is that although we tend to view this kind of government suppression of art and political speech as foreign, it&#8217;s actually quite common here in the USA as well. \u00a0In fact, we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/07\/01\/persecuting-rappers-in-the-arab-world-and-here-in-the-usa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Persecuting rappers in the Arab world&#8211;and here in the USA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}