{"id":2106,"date":"2007-03-27T05:59:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T11:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/not-quite-right\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T20:03:01","slug":"not-quite-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/not-quite-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheI think there is a serious flaw in this piece of art (Uproar hits Fla. Confederate flag show – Yahoo! News<\/a>). The formal gallows invokes a false image — who did the Confederates hang in such a way or by whom were they so executed? No, the proper way to hang a Confederate flag is from a tree limb. Perhaps it should be stretched over the bloody face of a dead man. There should be a crowd at his feet, half of whom are enraged and the other half of whom look like they are at the county fair. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Strange Fruit<\/p>\n

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
\nBlood on the leaves and blood at the root,
\nBlack bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
\nStrange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.<\/p>\n

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
\nThe bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
\nScent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
\nThen the sudden smell of burning flesh.<\/p>\n

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
\nFor the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
\nFor the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
\nHere is a strange and bitter cry.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.boscarol.com\/nina\/html\/where\/strangefruit.html<\/p>\n

Billie Holiday sings Strange Fruit<\/p>\n

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I think there is a serious flaw in this piece of art (Uproar hits Fla. Confederate flag show – Yahoo! News). The formal gallows invokes a false image — who did the Confederates hang in such a way or by whom were they so executed? No, the proper way to hang a Confederate flag is … Continue reading Not Quite Right<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}