{"id":15967,"date":"2017-01-16T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=15967"},"modified":"2017-01-16T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:35:10","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/01\/16\/martin-luther-king-jr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Martin Luther King Jr. Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday marking\u00a0the birthday of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Yesterday, January 15, 2017, he would have turned\u00a087 years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15968\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/martin-luther-king-jr-2-640x304.jpg\" alt=\"martin-luther-king-jr-2-640x304\" \/>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s\u00a0a great day to (re-)listen to his\u00a0inspiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/press\/exhibits\/dream-speech.pdf\">&#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech<\/a>\u00a0which he delivered at\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom\">Great March on Washington<\/a> in 1963:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream Speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vDWWy4CMhE?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><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Dr. King also once\u00a0said, &#8220;<\/strong><strong>Life&#8217;s most persistent and urgent question is: &#8216;What are you doing for others?&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>To honor his legacy, many citizens of\u00a0the United States spend the third Monday in January in service by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalservice.gov\/mlkday\">volunteering to an organization<\/a> in need.<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MLK Day Legacy of Service PSA - 60 seconds\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wMhx8HV4Ozo?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><\/div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=inS9gAgSENE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0120_MLK_COVERAGE+_3Z913TPIE.jpg\" alt=\"0120_MLK_COVERAGE+_3Z913TPIE\" width=\"619\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday marking\u00a0the birthday of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Yesterday, January 15, 2017, he would have turned\u00a087 years old. It&#8217;s\u00a0a great day to (re-)listen to his\u00a0inspiring &#8220;I Have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15972,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions\/15972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}