{"id":18717,"date":"2021-01-11T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=18717"},"modified":"2021-01-11T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:43:38","slug":"how-to-celebrate-the-dr-king-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/01\/11\/how-to-celebrate-the-dr-king-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Celebrate The Dr. King Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soulperspectives20.blogspot.com\/\">www.soulperspectives20.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:soulperspectives20@gmail.com\">By S. A. Miller soulperspectives20@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The angst and anxiety that so many people have been feeling the past several months is understandable.\u00a0 From an unrelenting pandemic that has taken so many lives, to the plague of social injustice that continues to challenge the lives of Black people in the United States, it has been a difficult time in America.\u00a0 How fitting it is, then, that the first major holiday of the year that we celebrate is the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr holiday.\u00a0 At a time when we need all the hope we can get, honoring the legacy and dream of Dr. King offers us some comfort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In pursuit of the dream, Dr. King probably had few days off.\u00a0 Fighting for civil rights has no \u201cdown time\u201d.\u00a0 Discrimination and bigotry don\u2019t take vacations.\u00a0 Dr. King\u2019s dream was for us to have freedom of opportunity in America.\u00a0 The opportunity to elect those who would serve us best.\u00a0 The opportunity to be educated at the schools of our choice.\u00a0 The opportunity to live where ever we wanted to live.\u00a0 The opportunity to have our own businesses.\u00a0\u00a0 The opportunity to pursue our own dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King is not a singular event.\u00a0 Instead it is a reminder that pursuing one\u2019s dreams is a 24\/7\/365 endeavor.\u00a0 It does not begin or end on January 15<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So as we celebrate the Dr. King holiday in these troubling and unsettling times, let us be comforted and encouraged by the vision of the Dreamer.\u00a0 The best way to celebrate Dr. King is to pursue your own dream everyday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.soulperspectives20.blogspot.com By S. A. Miller soulperspectives20@gmail.com &nbsp; The angst and anxiety that so many people have been feeling the past several months is understandable.\u00a0 From an unrelenting pandemic that has taken so many lives, to the plague of social injustice that continues to challenge the lives of Black people in the United States, it has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,103,105],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-18717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18717"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=18717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}