{"id":1124,"date":"2017-08-11T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T22:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2017-08-11T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T22:17:40","slug":"google-doodle-about-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2017\/08\/11\/google-doodle-about-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Doodle about Hip Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The August 11, 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Doodle <\/a>is about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">44th anniversary of the birth of hip hop<\/a>. The doodle is interactive: one is invited to experiment with scratching and mixing records on two turn tables [just two turntables, though, not <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_turntables_and_a_microphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two turntables and a microphone<\/a>]. I must admit that I spent a little too much time playing with it today! I also reminisced about my earliest experience with hip hop: with other 7th grade kids I improvised my own lines to raps by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five&#8230;I think that one of my lines was &#8220;Like Melle Mel I&#8217;m here to say, all the pretty girls come my way!&#8221; I didn&#8217;t pay much attention to hop hop again, however, until rooming with a high school buddy in my first year of college. At one time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isbell.org\/folks\/isbell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Isbell <\/a>maintained an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isbell.org\/folks\/isbell\/HFh\/home_hiphop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online hip hop reviews page<\/a>, but now he&#8217;s too busy with administration, as he&#8217;s the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/charles-isbell-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Executive Associate Dean and Professor<\/a> in the College of Computing at our undergraduate alma mater, Georgia Tech. I wonder how many other deans out there were hip hop heads back in the day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The August 11, 2017 Google Doodle is about the 44th anniversary of the birth of hip hop. The doodle is interactive: one is invited to experiment with scratching and mixing records on two turn tables [just two turntables, though, not two turntables and a microphone]. I must admit that I spent a little too much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22219],"tags":[22214,2051],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-main","tag-media-culture","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}