{"id":1237,"date":"2011-12-21T21:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2011-12-21T21:14:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:14:42","slug":"cornel-west-speaks-truth-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1237","title":{"rendered":"Cornel West Speaks Truth to Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1237\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Though the current status of &#8220;public intellectuals&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/11\/who-is-a-public-intellectual\/\" target=\"_blank\">somewhat unclear<\/a>, there is no doubt that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornelwest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornel West<\/a> &#8211; a Christian, a socialist and an African-American human rights activist &#8211;\u00a0 is one of the best in America. He is pugnacious, complex and passionate. The following provides a taste of what this articulate academic has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"281\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-rcQZxawdWk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"500\" height=\"281\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-rcQZxawdWk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the current status of &#8220;public intellectuals&#8221; is somewhat unclear, there is no doubt that Cornel West &#8211; a Christian, a socialist and an African-American human rights activist &#8211;\u00a0 is one of the best in America. He is pugnacious, complex and passionate. The following provides a taste of what this articulate academic has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,11,13,15],"tags":[116,117,118],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-economic-issues","category-global-issues","category-in-a-philosophical-mood","category-modern-culture","tag-cornel-west","tag-intellectual","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}