{"id":4872,"date":"1946-01-01T00:00:40","date_gmt":"1946-01-01T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2013-05-31T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T14:26:43","slug":"an-exceptional-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1946\/01\/01\/an-exceptional-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exceptional Spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Peoria was still largely segregated in the 1940s, The Famous Door was not: white and black Peorians fraternized on equal terms at the Pryor family bar.<\/p>\n<p>This photograph, which comes from a cache of photographs held by the Pryor family, might be interpreted in a number of ways. On the far-left, <a title=\"Harold Parker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/archive\/people\/harold-parker\/\">Harold Parker<\/a> (a Pryor family neighbor on North Washington Street in the 1940s) seems to be enjoying a night out in the company of a woman who appears to be white. His posture suggests ease and comfort; he appears undefended.<\/p>\n<p>But on the far-right, a black patron confronts the camera with a wary stare. Was this look a fluke \u2014 a momentary expression of surprise and nothing more \u2014 or was he guarded about having his photograph taken for a reason?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Peoria was still largely segregated in the 1940s, The Famous Door was not: white and black Peorians fraternized on equal terms at the Pryor family bar. This photograph, which comes from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,232,350,61,65],"tags":[53,423,354],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boy-wonder-of-peoria","category-the-pryors-and-peoria-between-two-worlds","category-5-sin-city-moves-up","category-harold-parker-people","category-famous-door","tag-harold-parker","tag-sin-city","tag-the-famous-door"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4888,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}