{"id":42,"date":"2016-02-10T21:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/ebony-your-album-ends-with-the-title-track-the\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T18:48:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T18:48:45","slug":"ebony-your-album-ends-with-the-title-track-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/ebony-your-album-ends-with-the-title-track-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>EBONY: Your album ends with the title track, \u201cThe Revolution Has Come,\u201d and it\u2019s so hopeful. You declare \u201cWe\u2019ve already won.\u201d How do you maintain hope in the face of a history, a present and a future that seems very unhopeful?<br \/>\nREV. SEKOU: That\u2019s part of what it means to be Black in America: to be hopeful in the face of hopelessness. My grandmama sang a song: \u201cI\u2019m too busy working for my Jesus\/I ain\u2019t got time to die.\u201d That\u2019s just who we are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/news-views\/rev-sekou-interview#ixzz3zmPy5Kgc\">http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/news-views\/rev-sekou-interview#ixzz3zmPy5Kgc<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EBONY: Your album ends with the title track, \u201cThe Revolution Has Come,\u201d and it\u2019s so hopeful. You declare \u201cWe\u2019ve already won.\u201d How do you maintain hope in the face of a history, a present and a future that seems very unhopeful? REV. SEKOU: That\u2019s part of what it means to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,1],"tags":[35,33,34],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-the-spiritual-life","category-uncategorized","tag-activism-blacklivesmatter","tag-ebonymagazine","tag-revsekou","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nB6O-G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}