{"id":8324,"date":"2011-01-17T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2011-01-17T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:41:19","slug":"hat-tip-to-a-real-community-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8324\/hat-tip-to-a-real-community-organizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hat Tip to a Real Community Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this year\u2019s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I\u2019d like to suggest printing and reading King\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africa.upenn.edu\/Articles_Gen\/Letter_Birmingham.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Letter from a Birmingham Jail<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The work is part of the American literary and cultural canons, deserving rightful mention alongside other great statements of American principles like King\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlkonline.net\/dream.html\" target=\"_blank\">I Have a Dream Speech<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s public witness reminds Americans that ours is a nation of aspiration.\u00a0 May his words inspire us to keep fighting for individual freedom\u2026together.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center &amp; MLKOnline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this year\u2019s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I\u2019d like to suggest printing and reading King\u2019s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.\u00a0 The work is part of the American literary and cultural canons, deserving rightful mention alongside other great statements of American principles like King\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream Speech.\u201d King\u2019s public witness reminds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2285,2113,2286,1069,1797],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-i-have-a-dream","tag-individual-freedom","tag-letter-from-a-birmingham-jail","tag-liberty","tag-martin-luther-king-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}