{"id":9892,"date":"2026-01-14T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:06:34","slug":"the-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/the-time-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much thought and debate, I think the time has come for <!--more-->SOB to start the shut-down process. We&#8217;ve been online since 1999! That&#8217;s 27 YEARS! Don&#8217;t worry I&#8217;m not talking about shutting down right NOW! But we are going to close out at <em>the end of this year<\/em> with a BANG!\u00a0 Everything possible will be dropped. Some of it will be in the VIP section, but also A LOT of it will be dropped for FREE! The only thing we ask of you is to share our content on all social media platforms every chance you get. Over the past 27 years, we have outlasted every single model site that challenged us. I won&#8217;t name names but they know who they are. We were the first all ethnic and black-owned urban model website to exist online. We existed before all the urban model hip-hop magazines as well. And guess what, they&#8217;ve long been gone!<\/p>\n<p>So, over the course of this year please comment and share your love for SOB updates, girls, and whatever you can remember about us. We appreciate all the years of support. ,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much thought and debate, I think the time has come for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":300,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9899,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions\/9899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofbrown.com\/sob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}