{"id":25163,"date":"2023-01-31T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25163"},"modified":"2023-01-31T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:12:09","slug":"black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25163","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the first day of Black History Month, an event that is celebrated in many countries around the world. Everywhere, it seems, but in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida I believe that it is illegal to say the phrase &#8220;black history&#8221;, unless you whisper it under your pillow and make sure that nobody is listening. Even then, you need to check to make sure that Ron DeSantis isn&#8217;t hiding under your bed.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, the entire month of February is shamelessly breaking the law in Florida. So I wonder what the legal eagles in Tallahassee are going to do about the next twenty eight days.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they will just avoid the entire mess and jump straight into March. I am sure the Florida Legislature has enough votes to outlaw February.<\/p>\n<p>But then I would feel bad for the people of Florida. They will all miss Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the first day of Black History Month, an event that is celebrated in many countries around the world. Everywhere, it seems, but in Florida. In Florida I believe that it is illegal to say the phrase &#8220;black history&#8221;, unless you whisper it under your pillow and make sure that nobody is listening. Even &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black History Month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25164,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163\/revisions\/25164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}