{"id":65692,"date":"2018-01-15T10:54:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65692"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:54:35","slug":"its-mlk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65692","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s MLK Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..and I&#8221;m taking a long weekend, myself.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I&#8217;ll urge you to listen, as I do this time every year, to Reverend King&#8217;s final, and in some ways most iconic, speech, &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been To The Mountaintop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ixfwGLxRJU8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221;, full of vigor and hope, gets all the headlines; &#8220;Mountaintop&#8221; is both more sober and more expansive; it focuses on the stump-pulling work of the battle for civil rights. It has lessons for those who fight for\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the whole thing is worth a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..and I&#8221;m taking a long weekend, myself. With that in mind, I&#8217;ll urge you to listen, as I do this time every year, to Reverend King&#8217;s final, and in some ways most iconic, speech, &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been To The Mountaintop&#8221;. &#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221;, full of vigor and hope, gets all the headlines; &#8220;Mountaintop&#8221; is both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65692","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=65692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65693,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65692\/revisions\/65693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}