{"id":99394,"date":"2016-06-26T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99394"},"modified":"2016-06-26T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T21:54:57","slug":"wp-this-rapper-rallied-to-stop-violence-on-baltimore-streets-an-hour-later-he-was-shot-and-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99394","title":{"rendered":"WP: This rapper rallied to stop violence on Baltimore streets. An hour later, he was shot and killed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad!<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/arts-and-entertainment\/wp\/2016\/06\/26\/this-rapper-rallied-to-stop-violence-on-baltimore-streets-an-hour-later-he-was-shot-and-killed\/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>He was a rapper trying to stop violence in Baltimore. Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as Lor Scoota, had just finished hosting a charity basketball game. The fliers advertising the event had said, \u201cPray for peace in these streets.\u201d Music artists and important faces from around the city had come together to prove they could get along.<\/p>\n<p>Lor Scoota got in his car and left the arena. Bringing peace to Baltimore was a message he had been trying to spread \u2014 on panels, in classrooms and in his music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow I\u2019m supposed to live with all this death in my sight?\u201d the 23-year-old had once sang.<\/p>\n<p>Lor Scoota was about a mile away from the arena when he was shot and killed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/download-3.jpe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/download-3-300x168.jpe\" alt=\"download\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad! Washington Post: He was a rapper trying to stop violence in Baltimore. Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as Lor Scoota, had just finished hosting a charity basketball game. The fliers advertising the event had said, \u201cPray for peace in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99394\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99394","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=99394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99397,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99394\/revisions\/99397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}