{"id":72146,"date":"2015-08-05T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72146"},"modified":"2015-08-05T09:33:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T17:33:47","slug":"a-jew-in-inglewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72146","title":{"rendered":"A Jew In Inglewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thefix.com\/content\/jew-inglewood\">Amy Dresner writes<\/a>: My first night in Inglewood, I hugged a crackhead. Let me explain. I headed to 7-11 for a late-night snack snoop because I have no curfew now and can do whatever the fuck I want whenever I want! A very skinny black guy with glossy eyes sporting an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt, asked me for money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, excuse me, miss. Can I get 65 cents for a hot dog?<\/p>\n<p>I hand him a dollar and say, \u201dI used to be a drug addict. I get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A huge smile comes over his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your compassion. Can I get a hug?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>So I hugged him.<\/p>\n<p>One day, I go to get some spare keys made at a nearby kiosk. This guy is stocked with everything you\u2019d need if you were up to no good: druggie bags in every size, stun guns, pepper spray, batons, handcuffs, fake police badges, ropes, pipes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuite a selection, brother,\u201d I say impressed.<\/p>\n<p>He laughs. \u201cVariety is the spice of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWish I\u2019d known about this place before I got on the straight and narrow,\u201c I said. <\/p>\n<p>I join the local 24 Hour Fitness. It\u2019s not my swanky West Hollywood gym with free towels and wifi and pretty actors. The weights are left everywhere. It\u2019s 99% black. And you check in with your fingerprint. Uhhh, ok. Every time I go to workout, the black guy at the desk fistbumps me. I\u2019ve never felt so stupid or white in my life. There is also a security guard in the cardio room. I guess there are a lot of brawls and stabbings on the treadmills? I\u2019m confused and a little terrified. Nobody fucks with me though. I\u2019m invisible here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Dresner writes: My first night in Inglewood, I hugged a crackhead. Let me explain. I headed to 7-11 for a late-night snack snoop because I have no curfew now and can do whatever the fuck I want whenever I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72146\">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":[26369,34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-blacks","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72146","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=72146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72147,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72146\/revisions\/72147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}