{"id":48,"date":"2016-08-14T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2016-08-14T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T21:35:27","slug":"biography-excerpts-chapter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/14\/biography-excerpts-chapter-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography Excerpts \u2013 Chapter 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMississippi\u2019s not a state; it\u2019s a club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This saying, once common among white Mississippians of an older generation, aptly describes, for better and for worse, the most \u201cSouthern\u201d of states&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Today this \u201cclubbiness\u201d of Mississippi often transcends race and sometimes even class, especially for expatriates, but in the first half of the twentieth century the \u201cclub\u201d was very much a white, usually upper class, male one.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Gray Jr., therefore, had automatic membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMississippi\u2019s not a state; it\u2019s a club.\u201d This saying, once common among white Mississippians of an older generation, aptly describes, for better and for worse, the most \u201cSouthern\u201d of states&#8230;. Today this \u201cclubbiness\u201d of Mississippi often transcends race and sometimes even class, especially for expatriates, but in the first half of the twentieth century the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-excerpts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andonewasapriest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}