{"id":50492,"date":"2015-01-19T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50492"},"modified":"2015-01-19T21:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:19:10","slug":"the-mountaintop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50492","title":{"rendered":"The Mountaintop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great tragedies of our age is that &#8220;Oratory&#8221; is nearly a lost art.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an age when Barack Obama is considered a &#8220;great speaker&#8221;.   <\/p>\n<p>But Martin Luther King was one of the great orators of modern times; to listen to his great speeches is to hear one of the summits of what was once one of the great western traditions.<\/p>\n<p>And he gave few speeches better than &#8220;I Have Seen The Mountaintop&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-OIjLDMWec\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great tragedies of our age is that &#8220;Oratory&#8221; is nearly a lost art. It&#8217;s an age when Barack Obama is considered a &#8220;great speaker&#8221;. But Martin Luther King was one of the great orators of modern times; to listen to his great speeches is to hear one of the summits of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50493,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50492\/revisions\/50493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}