{"id":13236,"date":"2005-01-24T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T21:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T23:09:12","slug":"melanin-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=13236","title":{"rendered":"Melanin is good&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shouts out to Conrad Miller, who has contributed the following piece on the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/LN_Melanin.pdf\">benefits of melanin<\/span>.  Conrad&#8217;s a senior in high school in Claremont, CA, and he would be one of the baddest writers you ever met if he didn&#8217;t want to sell his soul and work with math his whole life.  But, I was on that kick back in &#8217;97, so he may come around just fine.<br \/>\nReally, he&#8217;s written things at seventeen that I wish I could write today.  Check that piece out, and you can hit him up with praise at <a href=\"mailto:conradm@gmail.com\">conradm at gmail dot com<\/a>.  Also, feel free to offer your benefits of melanin on the comments board.  And if you&#8217;re like me and think he should do more with words, let him know.  This requires that you have Adobe Acrobat.<br \/>\nAnd to other writers without a major outlet, feel free to send me a link and I&#8217;ll put it up here if it&#8217;s that heat.  School paper, your boy&#8217;s website, I don&#8217;t care.  I got a feeling these good readers like good writing, no matter where it came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why being black is oh so cool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-13236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-boblogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}