{"id":992,"date":"2005-01-17T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/01\/honoring_martin_luther_king_jr\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:41:31","slug":"honoring_martin_luther_king_jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/01\/honoring_martin_luther_king_jr.html","title":{"rendered":"HONORING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/wireservice.wired.com\/wired\/story.asp?section=Breaking&#038;storyId=976645&#038;tw=wn_\nwire_story\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>national holiday<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., who would have been 76 on Saturday. King&#8217;s legacy more than three decades after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39, lives on despite the contempt shown by a majority of American voters in electing a right-wing president who is about to be inaugurated and whose reactionary policies oppose everything King stood for.<\/p>\n<p>Watch King giving his greatest address, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I47Y6VHc3Ms\">&#8220;I have a dream&#8221;<\/a> speech of Aug. 28, 1963, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. <a href=\"http:\/\/okra.stanford.edu\/media\/audio\/630416001.mp3\">Listen<\/a> to his peerless &#8220;Letter from Birmingham Jail,&#8221; of April 16, 1963, in which he defends direct-action nonviolence, explains its principles, expresses his disappointment with white moderates and reminds us all, &#8220;We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.&#8221; (See <a href=\"http:\/\/okra.stanford.edu\/transcription\/document_images\/undecided\/630416-019.pdf\">the original typed document.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s national holiday marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., who would have been 76 on Saturday. King&#8217;s legacy more than three decades after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39, lives on despite the contempt shown by a majority of American voters in electing a right-wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-g0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19623,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/19623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}