{"id":1017,"date":"2008-07-15T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2008-07-15T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:50:42","slug":"give-me-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Give Me a Break."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/barackebony.jpg\"  title=\"Barack Opimpa.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/barackebony.jpg\" title=\"Barack Opimpa.\" alt=\"Barack Opimpa.\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come on: I get it that, right about now, <em>Ebony<\/em> is probably <em>starving<\/em> for any kind of contact with Obama, or for <em>any<\/em> reason to put him on the cover, but <em>seriously<\/em>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/hiphop.popcrunch.com\/barack-obama-prince-ebony-magazine-the-25-coolest-brothers-of-all-time-august-2008-cover-picture\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Hip-Hop Crunch<\/em><\/a> for this. It&#8217;s certainly not that I think the subject of Black cool is beyond contemplation, even, perhaps, in the superficial way to which <em>Ebony<\/em> is committed.<\/p>\n<p>But is Obama <em>cool<\/em>? (Without the shades, I mean.) <em>Really<\/em>? I guess I&#8217;ll just have to stay thankful for these alternate covers, below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ebony_covers.jpg\"  title=\"Too cold, too cold\u2026.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ebony_covers.jpg\" title=\"Too cold, too cold\u2026.\" alt=\"Too cold, too cold\u2026.\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come on: I get it that, right about now, Ebony is probably starving for any kind of contact with Obama, or for any reason to put him on the cover, but seriously&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,15,9,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}