{"id":16663,"date":"2025-05-26T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16663"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:57:05","slug":"was-ever-a-worse-hero-than-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16663","title":{"rendered":"Was ever a worse hero than George Floyd?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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5 years later, can we all breathe now? Sunday was the five-year anniversary of the termination of George Floyd\u2019s squandered life. Like those burrowing tree cicadas, five-year anniversaries cause professional scribblers to rub their wings together and attempt profundity. They\u2019re programmed that way. CNN went up with \u201cGeorge Floyd legacy: How loved ones remember George [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/05\/26\/was-ever-a-worse-hero-than-george-floyd\/ 5 years later, can we all breathe now? Sunday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16664,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}