{"id":1494,"date":"2013-10-30T07:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2013-10-30T07:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:35:24","slug":"wednesday-30-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/10\/30\/wednesday-30-october-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 30 October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">07:35 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> There was an article on page two of the paper this morning about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalnow.com\/news\/nation_world\/article_447bd524-4111-11e3-95ed-0019bb30f31a.html\">using blackface in Halloween costumes<\/a>. There was, of course, a shot of Al Jolson wearing blackface in The Jazz Singer.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Just to set the record straight&#8230; Although Al Jolson is invariably portrayed nowadays as a vicious racist, that couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. From the 1910&#8217;s until his death, Jolson was at the forefront in the struggle against bigotry and racism. He was a hero to American blacks and did more than anyone to help break down the barriers that kept blacks out of Hollywood and mainstream music. Jolson was a hero in the struggle for racial equality, and that&#8217;s how he should be remembered.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07:35 &#8211; There was an article on page two of the paper this morning about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalnow.com\/news\/nation_world\/article_447bd524-4111-11e3-95ed-0019bb30f31a.html\">using blackface in Halloween costumes<\/a>. There was, of course, a shot of Al Jolson wearing blackface in The Jazz Singer.\n<\/p>\n<p>Just to set the record straight&#8230; Although Al Jolson is invariably portrayed nowadays as a vicious racist, that couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. From the 1910&#8217;s until his death, Jolson was at the forefront in the struggle against bigotry and racism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/10\/30\/wednesday-30-october-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 30 October 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}