{"id":8399,"date":"2011-07-14T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:01:00","slug":"rapper-xzibit-planking-is-racist-not-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8399","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Xzibit: &#8216;Planking Is Racist, Not Funny&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After &#8216;planking&#8217; seemed to have swept over Hollywood faster than you can say &#8216;Kabbalah,&#8217; there&#8217;s one lonely adversary who&#8217;s standing up against those that are laying down. Rapper <strong>Xzibit<\/strong> took to Twitter to express his extreme disapproval of the trend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Planking is THE dumbest sh-t ever,&#8221; <strong>Xzibit<\/strong> tweeted (via TMZ). &#8220;#Planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade, its not funny. Educate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>Rosario Dawson<\/strong> and <strong>Ellen Page<\/strong> to <strong>Justin Bieber<\/strong> and<strong> Katy Perry<\/strong>, celebrities have been laying down straight and narrow left and right.<\/p>\n<p>Although the position in which slaves were transported during the slave trade was not technically referred to as &#8216;planking&#8217; the fashion in which they were positioned on wood plank beds was not unlike the stiff, face down, palm to side style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After &#8216;planking&#8217; seemed to have swept over Hollywood faster than you can say &#8216;Kabbalah,&#8217; there&#8217;s one lonely adversary who&#8217;s standing up against those that are laying down. Rapper Xzibit took to Twitter to express his extreme disapproval of the trend. &#8220;Planking is THE dumbest sh-t ever,&#8221; Xzibit tweeted (via TMZ). &#8220;#Planking was a way to [&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-8399","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\/8399","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=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}