{"id":642,"date":"2013-05-10T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=642"},"modified":"2013-05-10T08:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T13:29:55","slug":"david-leonard-on-jason-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2013\/05\/10\/david-leonard-on-jason-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"David Leonard on Jason Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/libarts.wsu.edu\/ccgrs\/faculty\/leonard.asp\">David J. Leonard<\/a>, professor of Critical Culture, Gender, &amp; Race Studies at Washington State University and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-5321-after-artest.aspx\">After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness<\/a>. We discuss the significance of <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/magazine\/news\/20130429\/jason-collins-gay-nba-player\/\">Jason Collins&#8217;s article in Sports Illustrated<\/a> announcing that he is gay, the media&#8217;s reaction to him coming out, and sport as a site key site for the performance of gender and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH70_Leonard.mp3\">Download Office Hours #70<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are joined by David J. Leonard, professor of Critical Culture, Gender, &amp; Race Studies at Washington State University and author of After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness. We discuss the significance of Jason Collins&#8217;s article in Sports Illustrated announcing that he is gay, the media&#8217;s reaction to him coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[129,14,108],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-media","tag-race","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2013\/05\/Collins-Support-Tweet-e1368192573800.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}