{"id":38727,"date":"2020-01-20T06:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38727"},"modified":"2020-01-20T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:17:00","slug":"remembering-mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/remembering-mlk\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering MLK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"MLKDay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MLKDay.jpg\" alt=\"MLKDay\" width=\"704\" height=\"354\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It was a pleasure to work with Dr. King on Vietnam Summer.\u00a0 Of all the people I have met in my life, he stands head and shoulders above the rest.\u00a0 This is last year&#8217;s article.\u00a0 It is even more applicable today.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I47Y6VHc3Ms?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Normally, I would wish you a Happy Martin Luther King Day, but my conscience will not allow it at a time when Donald Trump* and the Republican Party have trashed so much of what he accomplished, and today, Dr. King would grieve.\u00a0 But he would also&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pleasure to work with Dr. King on Vietnam Summer.\u00a0 Of all the people I have met in my life, he stands head and shoulders above the rest.\u00a0 This is last year&#8217;s article.\u00a0 It is even more applicable today. Normally, I would wish you a Happy Martin Luther King Day, but my conscience <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/remembering-mlk\/' 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":[5],"tags":[3725,3849,3714],"class_list":["post-38727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-holiday","tag-mlk","tag-video","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\/38727","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=38727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}