{"id":48244,"date":"2021-02-22T02:56:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=182689"},"modified":"2021-02-22T02:56:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:56:23","slug":"on-contact-the-power-of-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/22\/on-contact-the-power-of-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"On Contact: The Power Of Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with\u00a0Emily Allen-Hornblower and\u00a0Marquis McCray the power of the classics, such as Sophocles\u2019 play Philoctetes, to elucidate mass incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Allen-Hornblower\u00a0is\u00a0a professor of Classics at Rutgers University and is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation grant to foster dialogues about the classics with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marquis McCray is a social justice advocate. He spent 28 years in prison, during which time he studied the classics through the prison college program offered by Rutgers University.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/on-contact-the-power-of-classics\/\">On Contact: The Power Of Classics<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/on-contact-the-power-of-classics\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with\u00a0Emily Allen-Hornblower and\u00a0Marquis McCray the power of the classics, such as Sophocles\u2019 play Philoctetes, to elucidate mass incarceration.<br \/>\nEmily Allen-Hornblower\u00a0is\u00a0a professor of Classics at Rutgers U&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9454,428,177,1206,5723],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48245,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48244\/revisions\/48245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}