{"id":257774,"date":"2013-09-12T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/12\/deathisnoparenthesis-i-settled-on-a-rock-in\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T06:26:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T06:26:42","slug":"deathisnoparenthesis-i-settled-on-a-rock-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/12\/deathisnoparenthesis-i-settled-on-a-rock-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-257774 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/12\/deathisnoparenthesis-i-settled-on-a-rock-in\/attachment\/257775\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mszjwqrWcK1qbup9xo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mszjwqrWcK1qbup9xo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mszjwqrWcK1qbup9xo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/deathisnoparenthesis.tumblr.com\/post\/60976133621\" target=\"_blank\">deathisnoparenthesis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I settled on a rock in Central Park, the New York skyline behind me. A glassy new skyscraper neared completion in its stretch toward the skies. I was striking a few poses in my superhero costume when a young boy perched higher on a rock chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaptain America does not have a turban and beard,\u201d he said. He had a child\u2019s curious tone. No malevolence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d I asked him. \u201cI was born here. We could have a new Captain America who is Sikh or black or Hispanic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thought about this. Finally, he conceded that yes, maybe a black or Hispanic Captain America would be OK. But his brain couldn\u2019t make sense of it: Captain America in a turban? Captain America in a beard? He\u2019d never conceived of such a thing before.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what brought me to this park on a beautiful summer day. To make fresh neural connections in our collective consciousness. To leave a new image on the hard drive of that boy\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/09\/10\/captain_america_in_a_turban\/\" target=\"_blank\">Captain America in a Turban<\/a>,\u201d Vishavjit Singh<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deathisnoparenthesis: I settled on a rock in Central Park, the New York skyline behind me. A glassy new skyscraper neared completion in its stretch toward the skies. I was striking a few poses in my superhero costume when a young boy perched higher on a rock chimed in. \u201cCaptain America does not have a turban &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/12\/deathisnoparenthesis-i-settled-on-a-rock-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257776,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257774\/revisions\/257776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}