{"id":250,"date":"2012-01-16T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=250"},"modified":"2012-01-06T00:26:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T05:26:56","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/martin-luther-king-jr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, January 16th in the United States, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.\u00a0 This is a federal* holiday commemorating the life of Reverend Martin Luther King.\u00a0 This holiday takes place each year on the third Monday of January.\u00a0 This is a day to remember the life and work of Reverend King.\u00a0 Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader known around the world for his nonviolent civil rights campaign to bring about racial and cultural understanding as well as equality under the law for all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>King was a Baptist minister who became a civil rights activist, a leader of large scale nonviolent boycotts, marches, and founder of civil rights organizations to bring about social change and equality.\u00a0 He is remembered for expanding American values to include the vision of a color blind society.\u00a0 In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for all of his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through nonviolent means.\u00a0 King was unfortunately and untimely assassinated on April 4th, 1968.\u00a0 A campaign for a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King began soon after he has killed in 1968, but it wasn&#8217;t until 1983 that the holiday was established by the federal government.\u00a0 Today this holiday is often commemorated by performing volunteer service in one&#8217;s community.\u00a0 This type of volunteer service is performed to help further the ideas of civil involvement and cooperative community action that King dedicated his life to promoting.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a video of Reverend Martin Luther King speaking the day before he was killed.\u00a0 This is the end of his last recorded speech.\u00a0 The transcript is below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin Luther King, Jr.&#039;s last speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o0FiCxZKuv8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got some difficult days ahead, but it doesn&#8217;t matter with me now. Because I&#8217;ve been to the mountaintop. And I don&#8217;t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I&#8217;m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God&#8217;s will. And He&#8217;s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I&#8217;ve looked over. And I&#8217;ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I&#8217;m happy, tonight. I&#8217;m not worried about anything. I&#8217;m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* national or nation-wide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, January 16th in the United States, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.\u00a0 This is a federal* holiday commemorating the life of Reverend Martin Luther King.\u00a0 This holiday takes place each year on the third Monday of January.\u00a0 This is a day to remember the life and work of Reverend King.\u00a0 Martin Luther King was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/martin-luther-king-jr-day\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5796,149281,149404,148741,149063],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-king","tag-king-holiday","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day","tag-mlk","tag-reverend-martin-luther-king"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}