{"id":2039,"date":"2008-12-30T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2008-12-30T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:00:14","slug":"whats-up-sis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Up, Sis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aa-lisaleslie01.jpg\"  title=\"Lisa Leslie and Regina King\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aa-lisaleslie01.jpg\" title=\"Lisa Leslie and Regina King\" alt=\"Lisa Leslie and Regina King\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The functionally titled <a href=\"http:\/\/tallblackwomen.blogspot.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Tall Black Women<\/em> blog<\/a> posts pics and info about women of African descent who range between six feet and seven-and-a-half feet in height.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Most are athletes, like 6-foot-5-inch Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie, above left. (The basketball player is shown with her 5-foot-3-inch friend, actor Regina King [<em>Jerry MacGuire<\/em>, <em>Ray<\/em>]).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/7.jpg\"  title=\"Sidjae Angelique Reid, model\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/7.jpg\" title=\"Sidjae Angelique Reid, model\" alt=\"Sidjae Angelique Reid, model\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>Some are entertainers or models, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tayoodukoya.com\/2007\/04\/idols-west-africa-farewell-mercy.html\"  target=\"_blank\">singer Mercy Nwankwo<\/a>, formerly of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnetafrica.com\/idols\/default.aspx\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Idols West Africa<\/em><\/a> fame, or Jamaican muse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/sidjae_reid\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Sidjae Angelique Reid<\/a>, right, both 6-foot-3.<\/p>\n<p>Then, some, like West Midlands, England&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tallblackwomen62to64.blogspot.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mistress Saskia,&#8221;<\/a> below, also 6-foot-3, combine all of the above\u2014athleticism, entertainment, and modeling\u2014into something of a question mark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aa-saskia01.jpg\"  title=\"Mistress Saskia of West Midlands, England\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aa-saskia01.jpg\" title=\"Mistress Saskia of West Midlands, England\" alt=\"Mistress Saskia of West Midlands, England\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The functionally titled Tall Black Women blog posts pics and info about women of African descent who range between six feet and seven-and-a-half feet in height.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,69,67,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}