{"id":76486,"date":"2021-01-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76486"},"modified":"2021-01-18T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:39:04","slug":"we-have-come-down-from-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76486","title":{"rendered":"We Have Come Down From The Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is Martin Luther King day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s time to be intellectually honest &#8211; to today\u2019s Big Left, if he were alive, he\u2019d have been canceled decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the historical record &#8211; one you have all seen, over and over, the \u201cI Have A Dream\u201d speech &#8211; flies in the face of the Critical Race Theory that dominates all \u201cprogressive\u201d \u201cthought\u201d these days:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; it\u2019s not like you don\u2019t hear \u201cI Have A Dream\u201d constantly these days, but for this speech teacher\u2019s kid\u2019s money, \u201cI Have Been To The Mountain\u201d is the one I measure his, and nearly everyone else\u2019s, oratory by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin Luther King&#039;s Last Speech: I&#039;ve Been to the Mountaintop\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zgVrlx68v-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Martin Luther King day. And it\u2019s time to be intellectually honest &#8211; to today\u2019s Big Left, if he were alive, he\u2019d have been canceled decades ago. Because the historical record &#8211; one you have all seen, over and over, the \u201cI Have A Dream\u201d speech &#8211; flies in the face of the Critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,54,25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-history-and-its-making","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76486","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=76486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76490,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76486\/revisions\/76490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}