{"id":1260,"date":"2008-01-21T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T10:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2008-01-21T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T10:53:38","slug":"in_case_youre_wondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/21\/in_case_youre_wondering\/","title":{"rendered":"In Case You&#8217;re Wondering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;why you won&#8217;t be getting any snail-mail today:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HRIF4_WzU1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard the entire speech, you owe it to yourself to watch this clip. It&#8217;s a little long, but it&#8217;s powerful stuff. And it&#8217;s quintessentially American: injustice identified and loudly denounced, over and over, until change is wrought. This is what I was talking about last night, the progressive spirit of the early &#8217;60s that among many other, far more important things, fueled the philosophy behind a little TV show I grew up loving. I admire it. In my cynicism, I can&#8217;t help but wonder if it&#8217;s still there somewhere in the American character, just sleeping, or if it&#8217;s been washed away by complacency and fear and all the shiny baubles that distract us. I also wonder what Dr. King would think of this brave new world of the 21st century. Have we come far enough yet on matters of race to satisfy him? How would he have reacted to 9\/11? Would he have spoken out against the horrors of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? And would people still listen if he had?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;why you won&#8217;t be getting any snail-mail today: If you&#8217;ve never heard the entire speech, you owe it to yourself to watch this clip. It&#8217;s a little long, but it&#8217;s powerful stuff. And it&#8217;s quintessentially American: injustice identified and loudly denounced, over and over, until change is wrought. This is what I was talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}