{"id":176300,"date":"2020-07-18T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/18\/john-lewis-dead-at-80\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T23:02:00","slug":"john-lewis-dead-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/18\/john-lewis-dead-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis, Dead at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/q3WKuZU.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/q3WKuZU.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>He had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/17\/us\/john-lewis-dead.html\">pancreatic cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Civil rights activist, long time Congressman, former president of the SNCC, close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the original Freedom Riders, and called, &#8220;The Conscience of the Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eulogies are coming from both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>My suggestion is to look at what these people do, not what they say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had pancreatic cancer. Civil rights activist, long time Congressman, former president of the SNCC, close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the original Freedom Riders, and called, &#8220;The Conscience of the Congress.&#8221; The eulogies are coming from both sides of the aisle. My suggestion is to look at what these people do, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,389,507,398],"class_list":["post-176300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-history","tag-obituaries","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}