{"id":1846,"date":"2012-01-14T23:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T03:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2012-01-14T23:38:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T03:38:15","slug":"%e2%80%9ci-was-a-drum-major-for-justice-peace-and-righteousness-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned <a href=\"http:\/\/whoisioz.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/preach-gospel-always-and-if-necessary.html\">via IOZ<\/a> that the words in the title of this post are inscribed in the granite of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in D.C., and that some people aren&#8217;t happy about it. They think these words inaccurately paraphrase the words of the sermon from which they&#8217;re taken, and make King sound like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/6878148\">&#8220;an arrogant twit.&#8221;<\/a> The State has heard their prayers, and is somehow now going to change the inscription. After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/documentsentry\/doc_the_drum_major_instinct\/\">the actual sermon<\/a>, I think the inscription is just fine the way it is, for reasons I explained in a <a href=\"http:\/\/whoisioz.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/preach-gospel-always-and-if-necessary.html?showComment=1326570950987#c8930809696093620811\">comment on IOZ&#8217;s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned via IOZ that the words in the title of this post are inscribed in the granite of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in D.C., and that some people aren&#8217;t happy about it. They think these words inaccurately paraphrase the words of the sermon from which they&#8217;re taken, and make King sound like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}