{"id":4159,"date":"2008-01-21T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/at_kings_church_obama_speaks_of_unity\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T05:02:00","slug":"at_kings_church_obama_speaks_of_unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4159","title":{"rendered":"At King\u2019s Church, Obama Speaks of Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Senator Barack Obama paid tribute here today to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and reprised his call from four decades ago, \u201cUnity is the great need of the hour.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s the great need of this hour as well,\u201d\u009d Mr. Obama said, addressing hundreds of worshipers during an overflowing service. \u201cNot because it sounds pleasant or because it makes us feel good, but because it\u2019s the only way we can overcome the essential deficit that exists in this country.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\nThe deficit, he said, is one of morality and of empathy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/20\/at-kings-church-obama-speaks-of-unity\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Senator Barack Obama paid tribute here today to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and reprised his call from four decades ago, \u201cUnity is the great need of the hour.\u201d\u009d \u201cIt\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4159\">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":[40,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","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=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}