{"id":22838,"date":"2020-01-20T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=22838"},"modified":"2020-01-19T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T19:18:26","slug":"civil-rights-leader-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2020\/01\/20\/civil-rights-leader-martin-luther-king-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s remember the life and legacy of the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday marking\u00a0the birthday of civil rights activist and leader. If he were alive today, he would have turned\u00a090 years old on his actual birthday of January 15.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0120_MLK_COVERAGE+_3Z913TPIE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"428\" \/>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0a great day to (re-)listen to his\u00a0inspiring &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech\u00a0which he delivered at\u00a0the Great March on Washington in 1963:<\/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><em>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<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. King also once\u00a0said, &#8220;Life&#8217;s most persistent and urgent question is: &#8216;What are you doing for others?&#8221;\u00a0To honor his legacy, many citizens of\u00a0the United States spend the third Monday in January in service by volunteering to an organization 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday marking\u00a0the birthday of civil rights activist and leader. If he were alive today, he would have turned\u00a090 years old on his actual birthday of January 15. It&#8217;s\u00a0a great day to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838"}],"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=22838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22840,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838\/revisions\/22840"}],"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=22838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}