{"id":1306,"date":"2011-06-06T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2011-06-06T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T17:34:19","slug":"get-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2011\/06\/06\/get-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"get the message?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last several days in Washington, DC attending the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and spending some time with best friend and fellow criminologist Charis Kubrin.\u00a0 I took the Metro from Reagan National Airport, and I was struck by these signs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2011\/06\/welcome_america_banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1307\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2011\/06\/welcome_america_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2011\/06\/welcome_america_banner.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2011\/06\/welcome_america_banner-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2011\/06\/welcome_prison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1308\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2011\/06\/welcome_prison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2011\/06\/welcome_prison.jpg 478w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2011\/06\/welcome_prison-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These posters, sponsored by the NAACP and carrying the tagline: &#8220;Let&#8217;s build a better America together,&#8221; were plastered on virtually all available surfaces.\u00a0 I found it a particularly powerful campaign, and I hope politicians &#8211; as well as voters &#8211; take the Metro to the airport and get the message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last several days in Washington, DC attending the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and spending some time with best friend and fellow criminologist Charis Kubrin.\u00a0 I took the Metro from Reagan National Airport, and I was struck by these signs: These posters, sponsored by the NAACP and carrying the tagline: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}