{"id":42119,"date":"2025-06-22T21:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42119"},"modified":"2025-06-22T21:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:55:52","slug":"james-baldwin-on-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/james-baldwin-on-love\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMES BALDWIN ON LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/10427.James_Baldwin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/authors\/1343346341i\/10427._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg\" alt=\"James Baldwin\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cLove has never been a popular movement. And no one\u2019s ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you\u2019ve got to remember is what you\u2019re looking at is also you. Everyone you\u2019re looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2015&nbsp;<strong>James Baldwin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 \u2013 December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Baldwin\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLove has never been a popular movement. And no one\u2019s ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city,&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/james-baldwin-on-love\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42120,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42119\/revisions\/42120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}