{"id":50978,"date":"2013-11-13T07:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50978"},"modified":"2013-11-13T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:36:05","slug":"12-years-a-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50978","title":{"rendered":"12 Years A Slave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The real life protagonist of &#8220;12 Years A Slave&#8221; was likely a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/new_movie_same_old_skin_game_steve_sailer#axzz2kJziXzgo\">willing accomplice<\/a> to a con of selling himself into slavery, expecting to escape and share the proceeds of his own sale, except his new master was a little too sharp for him and his fellow slaves wanted nothing to do with him and would not help. The slave&#8217;s wife regarded him as a &#8220;worthless vagabond&#8221; and his family didn&#8217;t look for him when he disappeared for 12 years because disappearing was just something he did regularly. But you won&#8217;t find any of this reality in the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real life protagonist of &#8220;12 Years A Slave&#8221; was likely a willing accomplice to a con of selling himself into slavery, expecting to escape and share the proceeds of his own sale, except his new master was a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50978\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50979,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50978\/revisions\/50979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}