{"id":54214,"date":"2014-05-03T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T04:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54214"},"modified":"2023-09-20T04:52:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:52:57","slug":"my-favorite-movies-about-blacks-in-the-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54214","title":{"rendered":"Blacks In The US Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love movies about underdogs. I&#8217;ve never seen a sports movie about an underdog that I have not loved.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed many movies about blacks as underdogs in the U.S. military, including:<\/p>\n<p>* Glory<br \/>\n* The Tuskagee Airmen<br \/>\n* Platoon<br \/>\n* A Soldier&#8217;s Story<br \/>\n* Men of Honor<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long thought that racial integration was the final realization of America&#8217;s long journey to full democracy. <\/p>\n<p>Judging by the movies and by the news, integration has been a wonderful thing for America and for the U.S. military. That&#8217;s true, right? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love movies about underdogs. I&#8217;ve never seen a sports movie about an underdog that I have not loved. I&#8217;ve enjoyed many movies about blacks as underdogs in the U.S. military, including: * Glory * The Tuskagee Airmen * Platoon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54214","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=54214"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152392,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54214\/revisions\/152392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}