{"id":137344,"date":"2024-10-22T12:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=137344"},"modified":"2024-10-22T12:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:35:47","slug":"revisiting-the-greensboro-massacre-45-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=137344","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Revisiting the Greensboro Massacre 45 Years Later&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theassemblync.com\/culture\/books\/revisiting-the-greensboro-massacre-45-years-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Assembly<\/a>: &#8220;When Aran Shetterly\u2019s new book was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scuppernongbooks.com\/book\/9780062858214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released this month<\/a>, he had no illusions about how it would be received in Greensboro.&nbsp;<em>Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City\u2019s Soul<\/em>, re-opens a dark chapter of the city\u2019s history many have struggled to definitively close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI fully expect that a lot of people in Greensboro will dismiss me,\u201d Shetterly told&nbsp;<em>The Assembly<\/em>&nbsp;in an interview this week. \u201c\u2018Oh, here comes another outsider trying to tell this story he doesn\u2019t understand.\u2019 It\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, nearly 45 years later, Shetterly felt the story needed to be revisited with new eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis story is vast,\u201d Shetterly said. \u201cWhat I realize now is, you could write 100 books about this from different perspectives and each one would have something interesting to say in it.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Assembly: &#8220;When Aran Shetterly\u2019s new book was&nbsp;released this month, he had no illusions about how it would be received in Greensboro.&nbsp;Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City\u2019s Soul, re-opens a dark chapter of the city\u2019s history many have struggled to definitively close. \u201cI fully expect that a lot of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137345,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137344\/revisions\/137345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}