{"id":514,"date":"2016-02-21T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T17:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnhuu.org\/?p=514"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T15:52:04","slug":"hollywood-spirituality-straight-outta-compton-and-channeling-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/21\/hollywood-spirituality-straight-outta-compton-and-channeling-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, February 21, 2016, &#8220;Hollywood Spirituality: &#8216;Straight Outta Compton&#8217; and Channeling Anger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-514-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/gnhuu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GNH-Feb-21-2016.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gnhuu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GNH-Feb-21-2016.mp3\">http:\/\/gnhuu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GNH-Feb-21-2016.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>(c) Doug Slagle, The Gathering at Northern Hills, A Unitarian Universalist Community, <strong>All Rights Reserved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> The recent deaths of Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sam Dubose, Tamir Rice, and Walter Scott, at the hands of white police officers, have made it starkly clear that racism in our nation is alive and well.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Almost all were killed in disregard for their civil and human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> As a spiritual matter, this issue of racial violence perpetrated against innocents has been discussed from this pulpit many times.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Since I\u2019ve been minister, we\u2019ve grieved and searched our souls over this issue.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From mourning the murders at a Charleston AME church, to Sunday celebrations of African culture or John Brown by Ray Nandyal, to lamenting attacks against immigrants, to discussing the subject of white privilege, to celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend WHG Carter, to Howard Tolley\u2019s guest message last month on ways to address racism, we\u2019ve not ignored the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> And we will continue to speak about this evil in our culture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Just two weeks ago, the 2016 Academy Award nominations were announced.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There were zero major nominations for any film dealing with black culture or featuring African-American actors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not one actor of color, Director of color, black screenwriter or songwriter was nominated for an Oscar even though there were many excellent ones to choose from.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The award is essentially irrelevant when it ignores the work of so many for reasons that appear to be racist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> This follows last year\u2019s similar nominations of almost all white films and actors. As an industry that is hailed as highly progressive, Hollywood reveals itself to be no better on matters of race than the rest of America.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And so, as a part of my Hollywood Spirituality series this month to look at Oscar nominated films and how they might inspire, I chose the film \u201cStraight Outta Compton\u201d for discussion today precisely because it was <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>NOT<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> nominated for an Academy Award even though it was both commercially and critically successful.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Indeed, I think it a much better film &#8211; and socially more important<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>&#8211; than \u201cThe Revenant\u201d which I discussed last Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> I have to confess, however, that \u201cStraight Outta Compton\u201d is not a film I saw when it was first released last August.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I doubt many in this room saw it at that time either.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rap music and its artists don\u2019t interest me, I told myself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s not that I\u2019m racist, I reassured myself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s just a matter of my personal taste.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And yet, that\u2019s not entirely true.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I remember seeing promotions for the movie with its depictions of gangster rap, violence, sexism and profanity and I immediately concluded the movie was not for me. It does not depict a slice of life that is relevant to me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And in those statements that I told myself are, in truth, my own latent racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Let\u2019s take a look now at the promotional trailer to \u201cStraight Outta Compton\u201d and as you watch it, think about your reactions to what is depicted. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rsbWEF1Sju0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rsbWEF1Sju0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> The film is a biopic about members of one of the original rap groups, NWA, which stands for &#8220;Negroes with Attitude&#8221;.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rising out of a 1980&#8217;s Los Angeles inner city environment of drugs, gangs and crime, three young men, stage named Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube, find they have a musical voice that speaks to young, inner city blacks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their first songs are filled with anger at the lack of opportunity, police harassment, incarceration and blighted schools in their community.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>NWA songs have a thumping beat that pounds with the rage felt about injustice.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their songs are purposefully political.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They gave a voice to millions of marginalized black youth across the US, including here in Cincinnati, where NWA performed a sold out concert in 1988 at the Coliseum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Ironically, NWA\u2019s gangsta rap style began to thrill white suburban youth who had no understanding of black oppression but who loved the raucous sounds and lyrics railing against police power and other authority figures. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Here\u2019s a sample from NWA&#8217;s most famous &#8211; and notorious song &#8211; &#8220;F&#8221; tha&#8217; Police:&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(And I&#8217;ve replaced some words here which is not meant to judge them):<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">A young brotha got it bad &#8217;cause I&#8217;m brown<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">And not the other color so police think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">They have the authority to kill a minority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;F&#8221; that stuff, &#8217;cause I ain&#8217;t the one for<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">a punk mother-f with a badge and a gun<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">to be beatin&#8217; on, and thrown in jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We can go toe to toe in the middle of a cell,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8216;f-in&#8217; with me cause I&#8217;m a teenager,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">with a little bit of gold and a pager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Searchin&#8217; my car, lookin&#8217; for the products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Thinkin&#8217; every brotha is sellin&#8217; narcotics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Performing similar songs, the group became hugely successful and hugely controversial.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tipper Gore, wife of Vice-President Al Gore, spoke before Congress against NWA and its profanity laced songs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Before a concert in Detroit, the police warned band members to not perform songs demeaning police or using profanity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>NWA sang their signature song anyway and they were promptly arrested.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>White protest groups across the country also reacted against NWA with boycotts and record smashing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Arguments over money and fame eventually split the group apart.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Members finally stood up against white managers and recording executives who had exploited them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Violence, sex and drugs affected them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tragedy hit a few of them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Ultimately, however, they earned hard won victories of self-empowerment, ownership of their music, great financial reward, and a legacy of activism against police and racism that is still relevant.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> The challenge I have in my message is how to suggest a spiritual ethic we might gain from the film.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Indeed, \u201cStraight Outta Compton\u201d speaks for itself on many levels and it is not for me, especially with regard to racism, to suggest how to correct it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I am a strong believer that whites should listen more than opine about how to fix racism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As perpetrators of discrimination, intentional or not, our obligation is to fix <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>ourselves<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Beyond that, we must listen to the <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>victims<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> of oppression and follow <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>their<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> lead in how to address the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> But if whites are to fix themselves, they can begin by understanding and appreciating African-American culture &#8211; including rap music.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We should look beyond the vulgarity, celebration of sex, and palpable rage in many rap songs to find, instead, the core message of anger and frustration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rap has been criticized by many whites as homophobic, exploitive of women, and overly violent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And the movie does not hide those dimensions of NWA and rap in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> But Dr. Dre and Eazy-E replied to their critics that while they were like journalists who reveal truth, their songs highlight white privilege and discrimination that motivates the angry and profane aspects of the genre.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m not a psychologist, but the emasculation of black young men by white police officers, through constant harassment and incarceration, likely gives rise to hyper masculinity in rap and its fans.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The film clearly depicts this fact.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The NWA band was, at one point, confronted and demeaned by white LA police officers outside their studio.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They were slapped, forced to lie on the ground, taunted and referred to as \u201cboys.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In response, Eazy-E immediately returned to their recording studio and wrote their most famous song \u201cF tha Police\u201d. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The historic debasement of black men by whites has clearly helped nurture their anger AND their sometimes aggression and misogyny.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s whites, not them, who are thus responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> But rap artists channel their rage not with physical violence but with musical poetry to inspire and give voice to deep rooted feelings.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Misogyny and homophobia are not attitudes to be excused but, in black culture, they are caused by white marginalization of black men.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>More important, the angry songs of NWA and those by contemporary black rap artists like Kendrick Lamar, whose song &#8216;Alright&#8217; is now considered the anthem of Black Lives Matter, their songs both inform and incite.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Last Monday night Lamar performed &#8220;Alright&#8221; at the Grammy awards set to a background of pounding tribal drums and a screen image of Africa burning with the word &#8216;Compton&#8217; superimposed on it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His point was clear: contemporary racism is a form of modern slavery.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Here\u2019s a sample of the song\u2019s lyrics &#8211; again with a few words changed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> When you know, we been hurt, been down before, brotha,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> When my pride was low, lookin&#8217; at the world like, &#8220;where do we go, brotha?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> And we hate Popo, wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, brotha.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> I\u2019m at the preacher&#8217;s door, my knees gettin&#8217; weak and my gun might blow&#8230;&#8230;.but we gon&#8217; be alright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Brotha, we gon&#8217; be alright<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Brotha, we gon&#8217; be alright<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> We gon&#8217; be alright<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon&#8217; be alright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Kendrick Lamar, one of today\u2019s most popular rap artists, follows directly in the footsteps of NWA and the story of \u201cStraight Outta Compton.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His art is political, social protest speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> In that regard, many of us can look to rap as instructive for how we can appropriately channel anger in our lives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rap is an expression of resistance, power and protest.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s an angry but <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>productive<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> response to the war on black young men that is fought with police killings and high rates of black incarceration, highlighted in the book <\/span><span class=\"s2\">The New Jim Crow<\/span><span class=\"s1\">. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As a white man, I know these forms of discrimination to be true and yet, if I am honest with myself, rap music and its anger are subliminally threatening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> In truth, rap is threatening to me and others because it threatens white privilege.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But, rap and hip hop are part of the evolution of African-American musical responses to racism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Like jazz and early rock and roll, rap is a uniquely American &#8211; <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b><i>and black<\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> &#8211; musical genre.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But unlike those two musical forms, rap is specifically intended to inspire and to demand.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b><i>But rap is not a bloody revolution in the streets<\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rap songs like those highlighted in \u2018Straight Outta Compton\u201d channel black anger in a productive way &#8211; much like all art is designed to provoke.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Indeed, I don&#8217;t want to sound patronizing, but rap is a form of <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Scripture<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> designed to poetically motivate its listeners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Like jazz and rock and roll, rap has also been eagerly adopted by white youth and, some say, often sanitized of overly angry lyrics.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Statistics show that 80% of those who now purchase rap music are white suburban teenagers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hip hop and rap are cool.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They&#8217;re innovative, subversive, sensual and anti-authoritarian &#8211; all things that resonate with young people &#8211; black or white.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> It\u2019s in that light that I believe we can understand both African-American anger and their culture &#8211; through rap music.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is up to me and other whites to examine our own hearts, in response to the racism that we know is real, to learn about, empathize with and ultimately appreciate black culture &#8211; and rap is one piece of that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In doing so, I can better understand the visceral pain African-Americans feel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> I also challenge us as Unitarians to examine our Sunday services in the light of African-American Sunday worship and music.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>UU services can be more open, more emotion filled, more loose, more multi-cultural.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In doing so, we might help bridge the Sunday racial divide.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s imperative we find multiple ways to honestly empathize with black feelings, to figuratively put ourselves in their shoes and feel the sting of racial harassment, the shame of inferior schools, the dread a parent feels for a son&#8217;s safety at the hands of police, or the soul draining pain of hate directed one&#8217;s way simply for the amount of melanin in one&#8217;s skin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rap and other forms of African-American culture, like their styles of worship, if really listened to and borrowed from, can show whites the existential pain &#8211; and pride- of being black and why, indeed, black lives matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> My message series this month using films to look at spiritual themes might seem trivial to some.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One member sincerely told me the series comes across as similar to the image of playing a fiddle while Rome burns.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I welcome such comments.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But my hope is that we see movies &#8211; and rap music &#8211; much like we do other forms of artistic expression &#8211; as powerful in their ability to inspire, instruct and motivate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> It might seem like a stretch, but I believe the three films I chose to discuss this month are thematically linked.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The film &#8216;Inside Out&#8217; asks us to look at our emotions and see them as useful if we maintain them within appropriate boundaries.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The movie &#8216;Revenant&#8217; suggests we can find redemption in how we treat others &#8211; with open and unconditional love that transcends hate and insult.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>&#8216;Straight Outta Compton&#8217; brings those two themes together.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The justifiable anger depicted in the film of young black rap artists is powerful, appropriate and real.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And our response to such heartfelt emotions must be to listen, understand and unconditionally love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> If rap is honestly listened to, we will find universal spiritual expression against injustice consistent with the words of Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rap music won&#8217;t cure the ills of racism alone but listening to and understanding it is one way for me and other whites to address subconscious racism and see, instead, one&#8217;s inner reality.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>No white person can fully understand the hurt of racism and ways they are responsible for it, but viewing the film &#8216;Straight Outta Compton&#8217; and listening to the rap music it showcases are worthy ways to begin an empathy effort.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I wish you peace and joy&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;as I also now welcome your thoughts about my message and topic today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c) Doug Slagle, The Gathering at Northern Hills, A Unitarian Universalist Community, All Rights Reserved &nbsp; The recent deaths of Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sam Dubose, Tamir Rice, and Walter Scott, at the hands of white police officers, have made it starkly clear that racism in our nation is alive and well.\u00a0 Almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhuu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}