{"id":1289,"date":"2022-04-25T14:58:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:58:21","slug":"standing-up-to-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/2022\/04\/25\/standing-up-to-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing up to Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In &#8220;We Real Cool&#8221; by Gwendolyn Brooks, Brooks warns against the consequences that come with rebellion. He uses repetition of the word &#8220;we&#8221; to promote the idea that this rebellion against authority happens with community.  He names the bad things they do such as skipping class and drinking. He speaks about a golden shovel and death &#8212; implying that the characters were defying authority and digging themselves a grave at the same time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;We Real Cool&#8221; by Gwendolyn Brooks, Brooks warns against the consequences that come with rebellion. He uses repetition of the word &#8220;we&#8221; to promote the idea that this rebellion against authority happens with community. He names the bad things they do such as skipping class and drinking. He speaks about a golden shovel and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-group-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}