{"id":1958,"date":"2020-07-13T17:56:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2020-07-13T17:56:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:56:33","slug":"review-the-fire-next-time-by-james-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-fire-next-time-by-james-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rightly considered a classic, this short book was published in the year of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech.  We should have been able to read it nearly 60 years on and think, &#8220;times have changed &#8212; we have come a long way&#8221; but sadly that is not the case.  At the very end of the book, Baldwin writes: &#8220;I know that what I am asking is impossible.  But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is <em>the least<\/em> that one can demand &#8230;&#8221; That remains as true now as it was in 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rightly considered a classic, this short book was published in the year of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech. We should have been able to read it nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}