{"id":3708,"date":"2014-01-01T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2013-12-31T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T22:00:55","slug":"bumpus-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/bumpus-grocery-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumpus Grocery Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Sigma Light<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Founder [A. Langston Taylor] gives an intimate picture of those days of birth and infancy.<br \/>\nThis is how it came about. One dull summer day in 1910, I was on my way home from downtown and paused for a while at Bumper?s Beale Street Grocery Store to pick up the latest news from the Squash Center, which usually held afternoon sessions there. I engaged in conversation with a young man recently graduated from Howard University, and since I had already decided to go to Howard, I was very much interested in what he had to say about the University. He dwelt at length on the activities of Greek-letter fraternities there. His talk gave me an idea, and from that day on, Phi Beta Sigma was in the making.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bro. Craig Arthur shares these articles about Bumpus Grocery Store<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/phibetasigma\/11674772895\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3715\/11674772895_224cc091d3_o_d.png\" width=\"276\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/phibetasigma\/11674773665\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3703\/11674773665_f062511c4a_d.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/phibetasigma\/11675561356\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3779\/11675561356_53218d41b4_d.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"219\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sigma Light: This Founder [A. Langston Taylor] gives an intimate picture of those days of birth and infancy. This is how it came about. One dull summer day in 1910, I was on my way home from downtown and paused for a while at Bumper?s Beale Street Grocery Store to pick up the &#8230; <a title=\"Bumpus Grocery Store\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/bumpus-grocery-store\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bumpus Grocery Store<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}