{"id":15939,"date":"2015-08-28T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15939"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:05:34","slug":"the-dream-still-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/the-dream-still-lingers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Still Lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0828KingDream\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0828KingDream\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0828KingDream.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other individual.&#160; I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present on the Washington Mall fifty-two years ago today on August 28, 1963. It\u2019s hard to believe that we are once again fighting the battle to preserve the voting rights won as a result of his dream, and to restore them, where racist Republicans are outlawing the right to vote. After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I47Y6VHc3Ms\" target=\"_blank\">his speech<\/a>, I need say nothing more.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I47Y6VHc3Ms?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other individual.&#160; I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present on the Washington Mall fifty-two years ago today on August 28, 1963. It\u2019s hard to believe that we are once again fighting the battle to preserve <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/the-dream-still-lingers\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}