{"id":19246,"date":"2017-01-16T20:54:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19246"},"modified":"2017-01-16T20:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:54:59","slug":"mlk-jr-s-greatest-speech-still-resonates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19246","title":{"rendered":"MLK Jr.&#8217;s greatest speech still resonates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin Luther King | &quot;I Have A Dream&quot; Speech\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I47Y6VHc3Ms?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><\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d share this\u00a0video shot in August 1963.<\/p>\n<p>You see, today Americans are celebrating the birth of the man who gave this speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He spoke of his &#8220;dream&#8221; of equality and a day when a &#8220;man&#8217;s character&#8221; mattered more than the &#8220;color of his skin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. King would die a violent death less than five years later. Today, though, we mark his birth and we salute the man who led a movement to bring equal rights for all Americans. He fought peacefully for civil rights and for voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>I should add that somewhere on the podium where Dr. King delivered the speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., is a young man named John Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>This young man would go on to become a member of Congress. On that day, he was the youngest among King&#8217;s closest lieutenants to stand with him that sweltering day in the nation&#8217;s capital. Rep. Lewis has been in the news of late, as Donald J. Trump said he was &#8220;all talk &#8230; no action.&#8221; Well, the president-elect is quite wrong about that.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to point out that the highlight of this stirring speech wasn&#8217;t written. Dr. King improvised the &#8220;I have a dream &#8230; &#8221; riff that has become a legendary chapter in the annals of American oratory.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy &#8230; and happy birthday, Dr. King.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d share this\u00a0video shot in August 1963. You see, today Americans are celebrating the birth of the man who gave this speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He spoke of his &#8220;dream&#8221; of equality and a day when a &#8220;man&#8217;s character&#8221; mattered more than the &#8220;color of his skin.&#8221; Dr. King would die &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLK Jr.&#8217;s greatest speech still resonates<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2231,2545,3108],"class_list":["post-19246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-i-have-a-dream","tag-john-lewis","tag-mlk-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19247,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246\/revisions\/19247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}