{"id":16205,"date":"2020-02-18T01:49:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16205"},"modified":"2020-02-29T01:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T01:58:16","slug":"explore-classical-music-langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/explore-classical-music-langston-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore Classical Music: Langston Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Langston Hughes<\/h2>\n<p>by Terrance McKnight<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16206\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Langston-Hughes-photograph-Jack-Delano-1942.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"Langston Hughes, photograph by Jack Delano, 1942. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.\" data-large_image_width=\"308\" data-large_image_height=\"400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16206\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-16206\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Langston-Hughes-photograph-Jack-Delano-1942-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Langston Hughes, photograph by Jack Delano, 1942. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a poet, Langston Hughes wrote about people and situations that were familiar to him. The characters in his poems and short stories were the people from his neighborhood and in his family. In my own family, my sisters would often recite his poems as if they were their own.\u00a0From his gospelized plays, blues poems, and advocacy for African American art forms,\u00a0Langston Hughes has always been a\u00a0part of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exploreclassicalmusic.com\/#\/langston-hughes\/\">Explore Classical Music<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langston Hughes by Terrance McKnight As a poet, Langston Hughes wrote about people and situations that were familiar to him. The characters in his poems and short stories were the people from his neighborhood and in his family. In my own family, my sisters would often recite his poems as if they were their own.\u00a0From&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-16205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-langston-hughes","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16207,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions\/16207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}