{"id":1334,"date":"2008-11-12T22:40:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T03:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2008-11-12T22:40:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T03:40:56","slug":"barack-and-50-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/11\/12\/barack-and-50-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack and 50 Cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, you got that right.  Barack and 50 Cent in the same sentence.  Or rather, post title.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I went to KGB bar with Shira Tarrant to hear her read from <em>Men Speak Ou<\/em>t, along with one of her contributors, filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhurt.com\/\">Byron Hurt<\/a>, and learned about Byron&#8217;s latest&#8211;a short doc examining the contrasting styles of manhood exhibited by Barack Obama and Rapper\/Mogul Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent.  It&#8217;s part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpublicmedia.org\/catalog\/channel\/masculinity\">The Masculinity Project,<\/a> a web-based endeavor launching in January 2009 devoted to redefining what it means to be a man.  Here&#8217;s the 10-minute short, which has been released only at Byron&#8217;s website and is being spread virally:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H5YoS3bqk5g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/services\/newspaper\/printedition\/wednesday\/partii\/ny-c5872846oct08,0,4886422.column\">here.<\/a>  Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, you got that right. Barack and 50 Cent in the same sentence. Or rather, post title. Last night I went to KGB bar with Shira Tarrant to hear her read from Men Speak Out, along with one of her contributors, filmmaker Byron Hurt, and learned about Byron&#8217;s latest&#8211;a short doc examining the contrasting styles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1976,876,21733],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-masculinity","tag-men","tag-racial-equality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}