{"id":9149,"date":"2016-07-13T21:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/13\/ellington-was-not-a-street\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T21:51:59","slug":"ellington-was-not-a-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/13\/ellington-was-not-a-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellington Was Not a Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ellington-Was-Street-Ntozake-Shange\/dp\/0689828845%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJQNGLAWKE5FJUTSQ%26tag%3Dmodelonthenet-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0689828845\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ellington Was Not a Street<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ellington-Was-Street-Ntozake-Shange\/dp\/0689828845%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJQNGLAWKE5FJUTSQ%26tag%3Dmodelonthenet-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0689828845\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin: 0 20px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/41v8ZWXzcnL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"Ellington Was Not a Street\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in the majestic paintings of artist Kadir Nelson, lived at a time when the color of their skin dictated where they could live, what schools they could attend, and even where they could sit on a bus or in a movie theater. <BR> Yet in the face of this tremendous adversity, these <\/p>\n<p><div style=\"float:right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ellington-Was-Street-Ntozake-Shange\/dp\/0689828845%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJQNGLAWKE5FJUTSQ%26tag%3Dmodelonthenet-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0689828845\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/WPRobot3\/images\/buynow-big.gif\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>List Price: $ 17.99<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: [wpramaprice asin=&#8221;0689828845&#8243;]<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>[wpramareviews asin=&#8221;0689828845&#8243;]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellington Was Not a Street In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[2042,2043],"class_list":["post-9149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-american-musicians","tag-ellington","tag-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9151,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions\/9151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}