{"id":37474,"date":"2019-08-28T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37474"},"modified":"2019-08-28T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:30:02","slug":"will-his-dream-survive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/will-his-dream-survive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Will His Dream Survive?"},"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\">&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other individual.&nbsp; I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present on the Washington Mall fifty-six years ago today on August 28, 1963. It\u2019s hard to believe that we are once again fighting the battle to secure the voting rights won as a result of his dream, and to restore them, where racist Republicans are outlawing the right to vote. Will his dream survive?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is a repost of last year&#8217;s article.&nbsp; I saw no way to improve it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I47Y6VHc3Ms?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Never before has there been such a threat that his dream will be destroyed by the Republican Reich!&nbsp; Will it survive?&nbsp; That depends on YOU!<\/span> <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other individual.&nbsp; I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present on the Washington Mall fifty-six years ago today on August 28, 1963. It\u2019s hard to believe that we are once again fighting the battle to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/will-his-dream-survive-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","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\/37474","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=37474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}