{"id":17146,"date":"2012-10-01T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17146"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:58:09","slug":"lupe-fiasco-says-yes-to-voting-at-philly-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17146","title":{"rendered":"Lupe Fiasco Says \u2018Yes\u2019 To Voting At Philly Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lupe Fiasco<\/strong> made an impromptu appearance at a townhall community gathering in Philadelphia, where a debate on hip-hop, the youth vote, and the 2012 election was well under way.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time,<strong> Fiasco<\/strong> responded in person to a debate that began on Twitter last week, when comedian<strong> D.L. Hughley<\/strong> and journalist <strong>Roland Martin<\/strong> criticized him for saying that he would not be voting for president in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The two also argued that <strong>Fiasco\u2019s<\/strong> voice could influence young Black men to stay away from the upcoming national election.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that his views had been misrepresented in the aforementioned Twitter beef, <strong>Fiasco<\/strong> clarified that while he will not vote for president, fans should follow their own interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lupe Fiasco made an impromptu appearance at a townhall community gathering in Philadelphia, where a debate on hip-hop, the youth vote, and the 2012 election was well under way. For the first time, Fiasco responded in person to a debate that began on Twitter last week, when comedian D.L. Hughley and journalist Roland Martin criticized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}