{"id":518,"date":"2012-05-30T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=518"},"modified":"2016-01-12T20:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:32:31","slug":"if-anyone-deserves-pardon-why-not-edenton-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"If anyone deserves pardon, why not Edenton Seven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">May 30, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Is the case for pardoning the Wilmington 10 any more compelling than that for pardoning the Edenton Seven?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">As the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/triumphantwarriors.ning.com\/forum\/topics\/petition-for-pardon\" target=\"_blank\">N&amp;O\u2019s Bruce Siceloff points out<\/a>, \u201cSomebody firebombed Mike\u2019s Grocery, a white-owned store in a black Wilmington neighborhood, during three days of racial violence in February 1971. When firefighters and police came to put out the blaze, somebody fired shots at them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In Edenton, by contrast, no crime was committed, making exoneration all the more challenging: There\u2019s no alternative \u201csomebody\u201d to point to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 30, 2012 Is the case for pardoning the Wilmington 10 any more compelling than that for pardoning the Edenton Seven? As the\u00a0N&amp;O\u2019s Bruce Siceloff points out, \u201cSomebody firebombed Mike\u2019s Grocery, a white-owned store in a black Wilmington neighborhood, during three days of racial violence in February 1971. When firefighters and police came to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}