{"id":57178,"date":"2016-01-18T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57178"},"modified":"2016-01-18T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T15:56:16","slug":"i-have-been-to-the-mountaintop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57178","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Have Been To The Mountaintop&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad was a speech teacher. \u00a0I think I may have grown up around a record collection with more speeches than music, until I started buying records.<\/p>\n<p>So a great speech is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n<p>And I lament the fact that great oratory is such a dying art &#8211; although the likes of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz both practice it with great panache.<\/p>\n<p>But Martin Luther King was one of the greats in the history of oratory, even if you don&#8217;t bother with his civil legacy.<\/p>\n<p>And here &#8211; the day before his murder &#8211; was one of his great ones, submitted as I usually do on King&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ixfwGLxRJU8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad was a speech teacher. \u00a0I think I may have grown up around a record collection with more speeches than music, until I started buying records. So a great speech is a wonderful thing. And I lament the fact that great oratory is such a dying art &#8211; although the likes of Marco Rubio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178","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=57178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57180,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions\/57180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}