{"id":43780,"date":"2020-07-28T01:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43780"},"modified":"2020-07-28T01:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T01:30:54","slug":"no-honor-for-lewis-from-trump-and-no-salute-to-his-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43780","title":{"rendered":"No honor for Lewis from Trump &#8230; and no salute to his greatness"},"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>Donald Trump won&#8217;t pay his respects to the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>The president detested the civil rights icon. I suppose it&#8217;s fair to point out that Lewis felt likewise toward Trump.<\/p>\n<p>However, it boggles my noggin that Donald Trump cannot even muster up any semblance of decency to make a statement saluting the sacrifice Lewis made in the fight for equality and justice for all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis bled in Selma, Ala., while marching for voting rights for African-Americans. Alabama police beat Lewis to a pulp, cracking his skull. He fought a valiant &#8212; and ultimately successful &#8212; battle to obtain equal rights for African-American citizens. He engaged in &#8220;good trouble, responsible trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States cannot offer a statement to salute this good man&#8217;s history-changing legacy?<\/p>\n<p>Reprehensible!<\/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>Donald Trump won&#8217;t pay his respects to the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. The president detested the civil rights icon. I suppose it&#8217;s fair to point out that Lewis felt likewise toward Trump. However, it boggles my noggin that Donald Trump cannot even muster up any semblance of decency to make a statement saluting the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No honor for Lewis from Trump &#8230; and no salute to his greatness<\/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":[1008,1424,2545],"class_list":["post-43780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-rights","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43780","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=43780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43781,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43780\/revisions\/43781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}