{"id":35001,"date":"2019-01-21T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T22:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35001"},"modified":"2019-01-21T22:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T22:55:52","slug":"i-have-a-dream-took-off-when-dr-king-ad-libbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35001","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Have a Dream&#8217; took off when Dr. King ad-libbed"},"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?start=163&#038;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>Banks, schools and other government buildings closed today as the nation commemorated the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The great man&#8217;s impact on our nation during his brief life of just 39 years on Earth is well-known and thoroughly chronicled. I won&#8217;t slog through his titanic legacy of his non-violent quest for civil rights for all of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The video I have attached to this blog post is of his greatest speech, which he delivered in August 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Two astonishing aspects of that speech are worth noting today.<\/p>\n<p>One is that Dr. King was 34 years of age when he electrified the nation with his remarks overlooking the Washington Mall.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thirty-four!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The tenderness of the great man&#8217;s age is astonishing. I am trying to grasp how someone so young could keep his composure in front of such a gigantic gathering of listeners.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the cool part of that speech.<\/p>\n<p>The aspect of Dr. King&#8217;s remarks we all quote today was not prepared. He didn&#8217;t read them from a sheet of paper with text on it.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; portion of the oratory was delivered extemporaneously. He <em>ad-libbed<\/em> it!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been reported over the years that the late gospel singer Mahalia Jackson exhorted Dr. King from the podium by urging him to &#8220;tell them about the dream, Martin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So . . . he did.<\/p>\n<p>The rest, as they say, is history &#8212; and what a history he wrote!<\/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>Banks, schools and other government buildings closed today as the nation commemorated the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The great man&#8217;s impact on our nation during his brief life of just 39 years on Earth is well-known and thoroughly chronicled. I won&#8217;t slog through his titanic legacy of his non-violent quest for civil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;I Have a Dream&#8217; took off when Dr. King ad-libbed<\/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],"tags":[1008,2231,3108],"class_list":["post-35001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-rights","tag-i-have-a-dream","tag-mlk-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35001","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=35001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35002,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35001\/revisions\/35002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}