{"id":219,"date":"2001-08-01T20:45:14","date_gmt":"2001-08-02T01:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=219"},"modified":"2001-08-01T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2001-08-02T01:45:14","slug":"the-medium-isnt-always-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/08\/01\/the-medium-isnt-always-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"the medium isn&#8217;t always the message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us were rapping at lunch about Rap music and we strayed off to discuss the less savoury quarters of that milieu &#8211; Gangsta Rap and Eminem.  To describe these types of Rap as musical is like describing rape as sexual.  It&#8217;s not about the medium at all.  It&#8217;s all about the rage and violence boiling beneath.  It disgusts me to the point that I can&#8217;t do the usual courtesy of providing links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us were rapping at lunch about Rap music and we strayed off to discuss the less savoury quarters of that milieu &#8211; Gangsta Rap and Eminem. To describe these types of Rap as musical is like describing rape as sexual. It&#8217;s not about the medium at all. It&#8217;s all about the rage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}