{"id":30328,"date":"2012-01-16T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_newspaper_editorial-matin_luther_king_jr-_still_brings_us_together\/"},"modified":"2012-01-16T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T20:00:55","slug":"local_newspaper_editorial-matin_luther_king_jr-_still_brings_us_together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30328","title":{"rendered":"Local Newspaper Editorial&#8211;Matin Luther King jr. still brings us together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s political process is locked in a contentious stalemate that reflects deep, race-based divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Some pessimistic Americans believe that aptly describes the United States of 2012. Yet it&#8217;s a far more fitting assessment of the United States of 1962.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to an extraordinary, Georgia-born preacher, we&#8217;re a far more united &#8212; and much fairer &#8212; nation today than when his epic life was cut brutally short in 1968.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/16\/king-still-brings-us-together\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s political process is locked in a contentious stalemate that reflects deep, race-based divisions. Some pessimistic Americans believe that aptly describes the United States of 2012. Yet it&#8217;s a far more fitting assessment of the United States of 1962. And<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30328\">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":[39,40,54,133,151,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328","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=30328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}