{"id":27960,"date":"2011-08-30T01:12:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T01:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_religious_leaders_laud_king_in_memorial_service\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T01:12:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T01:12:17","slug":"rns_religious_leaders_laud_king_in_memorial_service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27960","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Religious Leaders Laud King in Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake and a hurricane may have interrupted plans to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the nation\u2019s capital but religious leaders and civil rights veterans on Saturday (Aug. 27) said King\u2019s legacy is unshakable. The interfaith service was the last official event to mark the dedication of the new King memorial on the National Mall after Hurricane Irene caused officials to postpone Sunday\u2019s official dedication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Martin Luther King was anything else, he was an obedient servant of the Lord,\u201d\u009d said King\u2019s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, who was 5 when her father became a modern-day martyr in the fight for civil rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/religious-leaders-laud-king-in-memorial-service-cms-18437\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake and a hurricane may have interrupted plans to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the nation\u2019s capital but religious leaders and civil rights veterans on Saturday (Aug. 27) said King\u2019s legacy is unshakable. The interfaith service<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27960\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,133,120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}