{"id":268,"date":"2020-04-10T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/?p=268"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:08:49","slug":"passing-the-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/2020\/04\/10\/passing-the-baton\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the Baton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LECTURE \/ SJMA<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">PASSING THE BATON: BLACK ATHLETES AND THE SPEED CITY ERA AT SAN JOS\u00c9 STATE COLLEGE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Join former San Jos\u00e9 State sprinters, Ray Norton and Bob Poynter, as they share their personal experiences with&nbsp;Urla&nbsp;Hill, curator of the 2007 History San Jos\u00e9 exhibition<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sjmusart.org\/speedcity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black Power<\/a><\/em>. The panel explores the long-held cultural perceptions and stereotypes of black athletes during the late 1950s, as well as what it was like to be world-class athletes in Lloyd \u201cBud\u201d Winter\u2019s famous track-and-field program.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjmusart.org\/event\/lunchtime-lecture-passing-baton-black-athletes-and-speed-city-era-san-jose-state-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/sjmusart.org\/event\/lunchtime-lecture-passing-baton-black-athletes-and-speed-city-era-san-jose-state-college<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former San Jos\u00e9 State sprinters Ray Norton and Bob Poynter share their personal experiences with\u00a0Urla\u00a0Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talks-essays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/04\/urlahill_pass_the_baton.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}