{"id":4816,"date":"2012-05-12T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2012-05-12T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T22:14:21","slug":"wake-up-and-smell-the-21st-century-leonard-pitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/wake-up-and-smell-the-21st-century-leonard-pitts\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Wake up and smell the 21st century.&quot; &#8211; Leonard Pitts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/05\/12\/2795321\/serendipity-in-obamas-timing-on.html\">Serendipity in Obama\u2019s timing on gay marriage &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>North Carolina embraces only the stubborn intransigence of those who desperately need to wake up and smell the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen it before, the mulishness of those who think that by sheer obstinacy, they can turn back the tide of change. Those people ended up on the wrong side of history.<\/p>\n<p>They are about to have company. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/05\/12\/2795321\/serendipity-in-obamas-timing-on.html\">Serendipity in Obama\u2019s timing on gay marriage &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity in Obama\u2019s timing on gay marriage &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com North Carolina embraces only the stubborn intransigence of those who desperately need to wake up and smell the 21st century. We have seen it before, the mulishness of those who think that by sheer obstinacy, they can turn back the tide of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/wake-up-and-smell-the-21st-century-leonard-pitts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;Wake up and smell the 21st century.&quot; &#8211; Leonard Pitts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","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=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}