{"id":98686,"date":"2021-01-18T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98686"},"modified":"2021-01-18T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:33:09","slug":"a-prayer-for-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98686","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who by the hand of Moses thy servant didst lead thy people out of slavery, and didst make them free at last: Grant that thy Church, following the example of thy prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of thy love, and may strive to secure for all thy children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first ever Martin Luther King Jr. Day was in 1986. Days before, a bust of the civil rights leader was unveiled in the Great Rotunda of the Capitol. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tUC5jyNA0l\">https:\/\/t.co\/tUC5jyNA0l<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vuPK8672ED\">pic.twitter.com\/vuPK8672ED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYTArchives\/status\/1351159937452433415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2021<\/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>Almighty God, who by the hand of Moses thy servant didst lead thy people out of slavery, and didst make them free at last: Grant that thy Church, following the example of thy prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98686\">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":[209,186,133,120,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-church-history","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98686","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=98686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98688,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98686\/revisions\/98688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}