{"id":904,"date":"2016-07-10T18:21:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T23:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=904"},"modified":"2016-07-10T18:24:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T23:24:55","slug":"covered-in-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/07\/10\/covered-in-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Covered in Dust&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spring of 2000 was the second semester of my first year as a new assistant professor in the University of Minnesota&#8217;s General College. At the end of that semester one of my students &#8212; Andy &#8220;A-Ron&#8221; Winger &#8212; asked me to check out his rap music album, which I very much enjoyed. Over the years I&#8217;ve listened to all of his albums, solo as well as with others (including one\u00a0made with a student from one of my classes in my very first semester in the fall of 1999!). A-Ron has recently released his latest album, <a href=\"http:\/\/a-roncoveredindust.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Covered in Dust<\/em><\/a>. It contains many social justice themes that are very relevant in a week that saw\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/the-deaths-of-two-african-american-men-this-week-should-catalyze-a-national-push-for-police-reform-58ab65932784#.nf7lqj831\" target=\"_blank\">massive calls\u00a0for police reform<\/a>. Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spring of 2000 was the second semester of my first year as a new assistant professor in the University of Minnesota&#8217;s General College. At the end of that semester one of my students &#8212; Andy &#8220;A-Ron&#8221; Winger &#8212; asked me to check out his rap music album, which I very much enjoyed. Over the [&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],"tags":[1270],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-social-change"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}