{"id":82369,"date":"2019-06-07T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82369"},"modified":"2019-06-07T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:13:39","slug":"the-top-100-most-significant-american-political-speeches-of-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82369","title":{"rendered":"The Top 100 Most significant American political speeches of the 20th Century?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s 1984 speech (prior post) is #58 in the 100 most significant usa political speeches of the 20th c, according to 137 leading scholars of usa public address, as compiled by Stephen E. Lucas (U of Wis-Madison) Martin J. Medhurst (Baylor U). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/top100speechesall.html\">See what you make of their list of the top 100 speeches<\/a> of the 20th century there.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first delivered his famous \u201cI Have A Dream\u201d speech in Detroit in 1963 at Cobo Hall during the \u201cWalk to Freedom?\u201d He led 125,000 people down Woodward Avenue, delivering his 30-minute speech weeks before the March on Washington.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLKDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MLKDay<\/a>\u2060 \u2060 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SnrMvsld4P\">pic.twitter.com\/SnrMvsld4P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Branden Hunter &#x1f3c1; (@JustCallmeBHunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustCallmeBHunt\/status\/1087372832215089152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s 1984 speech (prior post) is #58 in the 100 most significant usa political speeches of the 20th c, according to 137 leading scholars of usa public address, as compiled by Stephen E. Lucas (U of Wis-Madison)<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82369\">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":[133,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82369","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=82369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82372,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82369\/revisions\/82372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}