{"id":7008,"date":"2023-06-19T10:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2023-06-19T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T22:24:38","slug":"juneteenth-another-thumb-in-my-eye-by-rohn-kenyatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=7008","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Juneteenth: Another Thumb In My Eye&#8217; by Rohn Kenyatta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/joker.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7009\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/joker.jpg 225w, http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/joker-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> In June of 2021, U.S. President Joseph Biden signed into law the federal  holiday of \u201cJuneteenth\u201d (yep, they actually made up a word).  Juneteenth, auspiciously, is to commemorate \u201cthe end of slavery\u201d.  However, slavery is still legal, quite so, in  the United States which is why Juneteenth is a joke. It is a joke,  because it is a lie. A blatant lie; and an insult to boot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kenyattasgal\/joketeenth-another-thumb-in-my-eye-53dc7a172104\">(continued)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June of 2021, U.S. President Joseph Biden signed into law the federal holiday of \u201cJuneteenth\u201d (yep, they actually made up a word). Juneteenth, auspiciously, is to commemorate \u201cthe end of slavery\u201d. However, slavery is still legal, quite so, in the United States which is why Juneteenth is a joke. It is a joke, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}