{"id":1408,"date":"2017-01-18T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/oid\/?p=919"},"modified":"2017-01-18T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:54:00","slug":"saint-josephs-remembers-rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/2017\/saint-josephs-remembers-rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Joseph\u2019s Remembers the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26, 1967, a crowd of 3,400 in Saint Joseph\u2019s fieldhouse heard a stirring address by Dr. King.\u00a0 He criticized the Johnson administration for being more concerned about winning \u201can unjust war in Vietnam than in winning the war on poverty here at home\u201d and explained the importance of enforcing civil rights legislation, despite criticisms that laws could not change people\u2019s hearts. &#8220;If vigorously enforced legislation can change some of the habits of men, and maybe somewhere along the way the heart may be changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article_featured_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sju.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/sju_newsfeature_gallery\/public\/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-1967_Slide-1.jpg?itok=CkElt0fx\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption featured_caption\">Image courtesy of SJU Archives<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26, 1967, a crowd of 3,400 in Saint Joseph\u2019s fieldhouse heard a stirring address by Dr. King.\u00a0 He criticized the Johnson administration for being more concerned about winning \u201can unjust war in Vietnam than in winning the war on poverty here at home\u201d and explained the importance of enforcing civil rights legislation, despite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}