{"id":870,"date":"2008-06-23T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=870"},"modified":"2008-06-23T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:55:53","slug":"make-it-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Make It Pain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/index\/bug-in-mouth-brings-out-the-street-in-reporter.html\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u201cMAMA!!!!\u201d\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/screen10.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cMAMA!!!!\u201d\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find the exaggerated vocal stylings of news reporters contemptible. Particularly, I dislike the stretchy vowels and odd pitch changes through which African-Americans tend to report TV and radio news. It&#8217;s aurally inauthentic, and, I believe, it disarms Black people. It keeps us from utilizing a wide range and sophisticated set of rhythmic and tonal apparatuses by which we comment on information\u2014<em>signify<\/em>\u2014in real time, as we relate it.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s fascinating to see, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/index\/bug-in-mouth-brings-out-the-street-in-reporter.html\"  target=\"_blank\">this clip<\/a>, how quickly the reporter goes from Standard American Newsman to NSFW Black Vernacular when a chewy, protein-rich insect flies into his mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the exaggerated vocal stylings of news reporters contemptible. Particularly, I dislike the stretchy vowels and odd pitch changes through which African-Americans tend to report TV and radio news. It&#8217;s aurally inauthentic, and, I believe, it disarms Black people. It keeps us from utilizing a wide range and sophisticated set of rhythmic and tonal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,7,20,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}