{"id":2369,"date":"2010-10-13T09:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T13:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2010-10-13T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T13:31:37","slug":"emerging-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2010\/10\/13\/emerging-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment2368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment2368\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2010\/10\/Screen-shot-2010-10-13-at-9.25.48-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2368\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-10-13 at 9.25.48 AM\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2010\/10\/Screen-shot-2010-10-13-at-9.25.48-AM-401x300.png\" alt=\"Gordon Parks: &quot;Emerging Man, Harlem&quot; (1952)\" width=\"401\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2010\/10\/Screen-shot-2010-10-13-at-9.25.48-AM-401x300.png 401w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2010\/10\/Screen-shot-2010-10-13-at-9.25.48-AM.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment2368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gordon Parks: &quot;Emerging Man, Harlem&quot; (1952)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My tears and smile could not match the tears and smiles of joy for the ages above the <a title=\"Washington Post - San Jose Mine, Chile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/video\/2010\/10\/13\/VI2010101301816.html?sid=ST2010101004127\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose mine<\/a>.\u00a0 Emerging man helped by engineers, common folk, prayers, and love.\u00a0 Can the emerging man ever go back down the hole?\u00a0 Can you keep the emerging people down below?\u00a0 Progress?<\/p>\n<p>We watch people under terrifying odds, come out of their hole with an unassailable and monumental dignity, but did we come out of our holes?\u00a0 What conversations, issues, questions, theories, and convention demand our struggle and for us to emerge new, fresh, and ready?<\/p>\n<p>What happens to the miners, their way of life, and their culture when the news cycle loses interest?<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Credit is due to James Baldwin for asking if whether <a title=\"Wiki - The Fire Next Time\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fire_Next_Time\" target=\"_blank\">The Next Time we deal with Fire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My tears and smile could not match the tears and smiles of joy for the ages above the San Jose mine.\u00a0 Emerging man helped by engineers, common folk, prayers, and love.\u00a0 Can the emerging man ever go back down the hole?\u00a0 Can you keep the emerging people down below?\u00a0 Progress? We watch people under terrifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}