{"id":10193,"date":"2021-07-04T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10193"},"modified":"2022-04-19T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:38:21","slug":"from-june-to-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10193","title":{"rendered":"As June turns into July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From Juneteenth<\/a> to the Fourth of July; it is but a couple of weeks, but for many Americans it could symbolize a life time of experience and expectation – ways shared and often not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Fourth of July 2021 being the very first that follows the very first official national Juneteenth, I let speak historian and law professor, Annette Gordon-Reed in today’s guest essay<\/a> for The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pub. Liveright, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

No, I haven’t read her recent book which is an essay collection called On Juneteenth<\/a><\/em> (I did read the excellent The Hemingses of Monticello<\/em> several years ago) that reaches into her Texan childhood, but will certainly do so. Given her heritage, and after reading the NYT <\/em>piece and this interview<\/a> at The Harvard Gazette<\/em>, Professor Gordon-Reed is definitely the person to go to as June turns to July and no star should stand alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should an outsider dare to offer her opinion; I would suggest Fourth of July celebrations aren’t going anywhere fast, but Juneteenth as a new national holiday, with a narrative that is peculiarly fitting for these times and with appeal to a new generation of Americans, may gain in traction and attraction. It is to be hoped, as Professor Gordon-Reed pleads for, that these days do not fall into competition rather are seen as complementary facets in an ever evolving national identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Juneteenth to the Fourth of July; it is but a couple of weeks, but for many Americans it could symbolize a life time of experience and expectation – ways shared and often not. This Fourth of July 2021 being the very first that follows the very first official national Juneteenth, I let speak historian … Continue reading “As June turns into July”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,16],"tags":[269,268,233],"class_list":["post-10193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-essays","category-politics","tag-annette-gordon-reed","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-juneteenth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10193"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12903,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions\/12903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}