{"id":30330,"date":"2012-01-16T23:06:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kennedy_clyburn_offer_inspiration_at_king_event_in_charleston_s-c-_yesterda\/"},"modified":"2012-01-16T23:06:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:06:57","slug":"kennedy_clyburn_offer_inspiration_at_king_event_in_charleston_s-c-_yesterda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30330","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy, Clyburn offer inspiration at King event in Charleston, S.C., Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Kennedy, 44, served eight terms in Congress, ending his political career last January. He heads &#8220;The Next Frontier,&#8221; a campaign to raise money for brain-disorder research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess the phrase, &#8216;We all stand on the shoulders of giants&#8217; applies to me especially,&#8221; he said, referring to his father.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of Harvey Gantt, for whom the award is named. Gantt is a Burke High School graduate who became the first black student at Clemson University, after a lengthy legal battle that went to the Supreme Court. After being repeatedly ignored when he asked for information on the engineering program, he finally sued the school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/16\/its-all-about-human-dignity\">Read it all from the local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Kennedy, 44, served eight terms in Congress, ending his political career last January. He heads &#8220;The Next Frontier,&#8221; a campaign to raise money for brain-disorder research. &#8220;I guess the phrase, &#8216;We all stand on the shoulders of giants&#8217; applies<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30330\">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":[39,54,133,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-history","category-racerace-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30330","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=30330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}