{"id":564,"date":"2020-09-12T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2020-09-12T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T16:25:24","slug":"lets-keep-these-things-separate-in-response-to-football-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;let&#8217;s keep these things separate&#8221; in response to football protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">some people like to say&#8230; &#8220;let&#8217;s keep these things separate&#8221;<br \/>\nbut here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; where is the line drawn?<br \/>\nkids in cages \/ concentration camps IS NOT Okay with me.<br \/>\nIt is not okay to kill people being arrested<br \/>\nIt is not okay to allow bounties on our troops and say nothing, do nothing.<br \/>\nAND, all the other methods of getting these issues addressed haven&#8217;t worked for a very very long time.<br \/>\nSO, I&#8217;m going to do what I need to do to advocate for change&#8230;<br \/>\nand if that is inconvenient then there seems to be a lack of understanding&#8230; AND<br \/>\nanyone able to ignore these or other issues, to &#8220;separate them&#8221; from football, etc&#8230;<br \/>\nThat Is Privilege.<\/p>\n<p>We are all connected. I&#8217;m proud of those players for making a loving powerful statement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some people like to say&#8230; &#8220;let&#8217;s keep these things separate&#8221; but here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; where is the line drawn? kids in cages \/ concentration camps IS NOT Okay with me. It is not okay to kill people being arrested It is not okay to allow bounties on our troops and say nothing, do nothing. AND, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/?p=564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;let&#8217;s keep these things separate&#8221; in response to football protests<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonmarkelizondo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}