{"id":6322,"date":"2015-02-02T22:23:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=6322"},"modified":"2015-02-02T22:23:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:23:35","slug":"spoken-word-artist-stops-show-with-the-average-black-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/spoken-word-artist-stops-show-with-the-average-black-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoken word artist stops show with &#8216;The Average Black Girl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-10.06.13-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-10.06.13-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Ernestine Johnson\" width=\"670\" height=\"590\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-10.06.13-PM.jpg 670w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-10.06.13-PM-225x198.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-10.06.13-PM-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a>Ernestine Johnson is glorious in her spoken word performance of &#8216;The Average Black Girl&#8217; on the Arsenio Hall Show.<\/p>\n<p>Ernestine recounts when boyfriend&#8217;s mother told her she was acceptable because she&#8217;s not &#8216;The Average Black Girl&#8217; &#8230; and she&#8217;s told she&#8217;s not &#8216;The Average Black Girl&#8217; because &#8220;When I speak, I pronounce every syllable.&#8221; But Ms. Johnson interprets this label in a very different way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2tN4Zulagb8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernestine Johnson is glorious in her spoken word performance of &#8216;The Average Black Girl&#8217; on the Arsenio Hall Show. Ernestine recounts when boyfriend&#8217;s mother told her she was acceptable because she&#8217;s not &#8216;The Average Black Girl&#8217; &#8230; and she&#8217;s told she&#8217;s not &#8216;The Average Black Girl&#8217; because &#8220;When I speak, I pronounce every syllable.&#8221; But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/spoken-word-artist-stops-show-with-the-average-black-girl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spoken word artist stops show with &#8216;The Average Black Girl&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1082,664,563,1028],"tags":[1734,1412],"class_list":["post-6322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-dei","category-happiness","category-justice","category-women","tag-black-girl","tag-spoken-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6322"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}