{"id":634,"date":"2006-01-06T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=634"},"modified":"2006-01-06T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T13:36:12","slug":"identity_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Identity Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read this great column by George Will in today&#8217;s L.A. Times concerning the NCAA&#8217;s attempts to force college and universities to change their sports team names reflecting anything American Indian (and I use the term &#8220;American Indian&#8221; intentionally because as one having a Cherokee heritage I know that most tribes prefer the term &#8220;American Indians&#8221; rather than &#8220;Native Americans).<br \/>\nHere is a bit:<br \/>\n&#8220;In 2002 Sports Illustrated published a poll of 351 Native Americans, 217 living on reservations, 134 living off. Eighty-one percent said high school and college teams should not stop using Indian nicknames.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/04\/AR2006010401590.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this great column by George Will in today&#8217;s L.A. Times concerning the NCAA&#8217;s attempts to force college and universities to change their sports team names reflecting anything American Indian (and I use the term &#8220;American Indian&#8221; intentionally because as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicsculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}