{"id":462,"date":"2017-04-12T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=462"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:02:26","slug":"hominy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/paul-beatty\/hominy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hominy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I found ironic as I was reading about Hominy is that fact that the most freeing he has every felt has been acquired by his becoming (or accepting?- i don&#8217;t know) his role as a slave. What is the statement Beatty is making with Hominy (which sounds like Harmony)? Push back on me if you disagree, but I&#8217;m willing to assert that Beatty is making a comment about black peoples perception of themselves in America.\u00a0Perhaps Hominy feels so free because he recognized what he is in the world\/ how the world views him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I found ironic as I was reading about Hominy is that fact that the most freeing he has every felt has been acquired by his becoming (or accepting?- i don&#8217;t know) his role as a slave. What is the statement Beatty is making with Hominy (which sounds like Harmony)? Push back on me if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul-beatty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}