{"id":1414,"date":"2016-01-17T23:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/17\/6-ways-to-meaningfully-honor-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/"},"modified":"2016-01-17T23:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T15:07:59","slug":"6-ways-to-meaningfully-honor-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/17\/6-ways-to-meaningfully-honor-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"6 ways to meaningfully honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Too often, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is seen as a day off \u2014 and little else<\/p>\n

Aside from grade school lessons painting a vague picture of King’s life and activism, the majority of us, especially white people, remain detached from his impact. He’s a historical name we’ve learned to recognize, coupled with bits and pieces of facts from a whitewashed history. But truly appreciating his work is hardly on the radar \u2014 even on a day made to honor him.<\/p>\n

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See also: 1956: At home with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It’s an uncomfortable reality of how we’ve been taught to value (or, rather, not value) one of the most influential black leaders in history. It’s all merely surface; a story we don’t see as extending beyond the crisp pages of an elementary textbook. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Too often, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is seen as a day off \u2014 and little else Aside from grade school lessons painting a vague picture of King’s life and activism, the majority of us, especially white people, remain detached … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1089,1090,892,865,732],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-martin-luther-king-day","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-social-good","tag-us","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}