{"id":2784,"date":"2018-07-28T20:46:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2018-07-28T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T01:46:45","slug":"i-was-mr-rogerss-actual-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"I was Mr. Rogers\u2019s actual neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A lot has happened in the 50 years since Rogers\u2019s show went national; so much atrocity has poured through the minds of successive generations. What would Rogers, a lifelong Republican who died in 2003, make of today\u2019s experience of childhood, pocked with school shootings, social media, and a bully-like president? I\u2019m not sure if his brand of empathy could survive this climate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2018\/7\/26\/17616380\/fred-rogers-documentary-2018-mister-rogers-neighborhood\">Mister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood anniversary: I was Mr. Rogers\u2019s actual neighbor &#8211; Vox<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened in the 50 years since Rogers\u2019s show went national; so much atrocity has poured through the minds of successive generations. What would Rogers, a lifelong Republican who died in 2003, make of today\u2019s experience of childhood, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}