{"id":419,"date":"2007-05-13T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2007-05-24T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T03:22:37","slug":"pigdin-english-vs-ebonics-wheres-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Pigdin English vs. Ebonics&#8230; where&#8217;s the line?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten into the lolcats thing lately. See <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/\">I Can Has Cheezburger<\/a> for examples of this, but looking at some of the examples, most noticeably the walrus with bucket theme, I got to wondering whether these unintentionally cross the line of being offensive to African Americans. I asked a co-worker about this, and their response was pretty direct: &#8220;If you have to ask the question, then it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty direct summation, huh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten into the lolcats thing lately. See I Can Has Cheezburger for examples of this, but looking at some of the examples, most noticeably the walrus with bucket theme, I got to wondering whether these unintentionally cross the line of being offensive to African Americans. I asked a co-worker about this, and their response &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pigdin English vs. Ebonics&#8230; where&#8217;s the line?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspectives","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}