{"id":66,"date":"2018-01-15T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/?p=66"},"modified":"2018-01-15T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:32:22","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day-a-message-from-dean-perdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/2018\/01\/15\/martin-luther-king-jr-day-a-message-from-dean-perdue\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King, Jr. Day &#8211; A Message from Dean Perdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Today we once again\u00a0honor\u00a0the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,\u00a0though\u00a0the celebration seems particularly poignant since this year marks the 50<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">th<\/span>\u00a0anniversary of his assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I find myself wondering: Fifty years ago, where did we think we would be today?\u00a0On the one hand, did we think we would have seen our first African American president?\u00a0On the other, did we think that white supremacist ideology would still be alive and well? Amidst progress, there is still work to be done.<\/p>\n<p>So where will be fifty years from now?\u00a0The answers depends on us.\u00a0Dr. King offered good advice in that regard when he observed, \u201cThe time is always right to do what is right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peace and best wishes to all,\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Perdue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, Today we once again\u00a0honor\u00a0the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,\u00a0though\u00a0the celebration seems particularly poignant since this year marks the 50th\u00a0anniversary of his assassination. Looking back, I find myself wondering: Fifty years ago, where did we think we would be today?\u00a0On the one hand, did we think we would have seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63331],"tags":[63337],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message-from-the-dean","tag-martin-luther-king-jr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}