{"id":177083,"date":"2020-01-02T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/02\/i-went-to-the-national-civil-rights-museum-today\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:10:00","slug":"i-went-to-the-national-civil-rights-museum-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/02\/i-went-to-the-national-civil-rights-museum-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I Went to the National Civil Rights Museum Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s at the Lorraine Motel building, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good museum, and you should go.<\/p>\n<p>I am a profoundly weird person though, becuse the thing that effected me the most was just walking in, having to empty my pockets, and walk through a metal detector.<\/p>\n<p>At a memorial to one of the most prominent proponents of non-violence in American history, they have to have a metal detector, and a wand, to prevent some James Earl Ray wannabe from shooting up the place.<\/p>\n<p>If this doesn&#8217;t outrage you, you are seriously dense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s at the Lorraine Motel building, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. It&#8217;s a good museum, and you should go. I am a profoundly weird person though, becuse the thing that effected me the most was just walking in, having to empty my pockets, and walk through a metal detector. &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":[506,389,398],"class_list":["post-177083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-history","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177083"}],"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=177083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}