{"id":4225,"date":"2008-03-14T01:58:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T09:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/14\/denial-its-a-white-thing\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T01:58:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T09:18:47","slug":"denial-its-a-white-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"Denial: It&#039;s a White thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zena.secureforum.com\/cartoons\/show_toon.cfm?toonID=2401&#038;toonList=2401,2400,2399,2398,2397,2396,2395,2394,2393,2392,2391,2390,2389,2388,2387,2386,2385,2382,2379,2378,2377,2376,2375,2374,2373,2372,2371,2370,2369,2368,2367,2366,2361,2360,2359,2358,2357,2356,2355,2354,2353,2352,2351,2350,2349,2348,2347,2346,2345,2344,2343,2342,2341,2340,2339,2338,2337,2336,2335,2334,2333,2332,2331,2330,2329,2328,2327,2326,2325,2324,2323,2322,2321,2320,2319,2318,2317,2316,2315,2314,2313,2312,2311,2310,2309,2308,2307,2306,2305,2304,2303,2302,2301,2300&#038;index=index.cfm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dollarsandsense.org\/archives\/2008\/0108toon.gif\" alt=\"Remember, if White people are unaware of something, then it must not exist at all!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case folks wonder, I definitely didn&#8217;t mean this as a reference to Bob Hayes; that it might be read that way didn&#8217;t occur to me until two seconds ago, as I started to post the cartoon on &#8220;Alas.&#8221; I just used &#8220;Bob&#8221; because it&#8217;s a funny-sounding name (see: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_(Blackadder_character)\">Black Adder<\/a>), and because it&#8217;s only three letters long and so requires so little word balloon space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case folks wonder, I definitely didn&#8217;t mean this as a reference to Bob Hayes; that it might be read that way didn&#8217;t occur to me until two seconds ago, as I started to post the cartoon on &#8220;Alas.&#8221; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}