{"id":11207,"date":"2011-01-12T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11207"},"modified":"2011-01-12T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:25:04","slug":"white-on-black-on-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11207","title":{"rendered":"White On Black On White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn. I wish I could get <a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ta-nehisi-coates\/'>Micheal Chabon to stop by and do a guest post<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>And, speaking of the n-word...<\/p>\n<p>I had the idea last night to make a version of Huck Finn where every word <i>other than<\/i> \"nigger\" is replaced by white space.<\/p>\n<p>You'd have a mostly empty book, with 200+ \"nigger\"s sprinkled throughout the 300-odd pages. It would be a provocative work of art, you see.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know what the stereotypical <i>garb d'artiste<\/i> is these days (I assume the beret, goatee, round glasses, and black turtleneck look is 60 years out of date), but I'd have to wear whatever it is, while I claimed my creation was \"a work of art intended to open a dialogue on the place of the n-word in our society and the effects of bowdlerization of classic works. By stripping the text of <i>Huckleberry Finn<\/i> of all but the parts which offend us most, I have forced us to... yadayadayada.\" (I think there's a website that can spit this stuff out automatically). I'd need to maintain a pose of ironic detachment, too.<\/p>\n<p>I will not do this, of course. I actually hate this kind of 'art'. Plus, it's kinda dumb. But, I could see someone else doing it, and me giving it a short side-link and an eye-roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn. I wish I could get Micheal Chabon to stop by and do a guest post! And, speaking of the n-word... I had the idea last night to make a version of Huck Finn where every word other than \"nigger\" is replaced by white space. You'd have a mostly empty book, with 200+ \"nigger\"s sprinkled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}