{"id":456,"date":"2019-09-03T20:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T00:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=456"},"modified":"2019-09-03T20:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T00:54:39","slug":"mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/03\/mlk\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was very interesting how Martin Luther King did not seek out a leadership position but was rather thrown into one. Under the circumstances of the time he took the call to action. This made me thing about the nature vs. nurture debate. MLK used the circumstances and feelings of the people and causes he stood for to nurture the skills he needed to be a great leader. He was able to symbothize with his audience which captivated many many and increased his following.<\/p>\n<p>A question I had while reading about MLk is: Is he a charismatic leader or servant leader or both? MLK shows all signs of being a charismatic leader. He also served along side his followers in the fight agaisnt segregation. He served the cause and lead it as well. Can a leader be both charismatic and a servant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was very interesting how Martin Luther King did not seek out a leadership position but was rather thrown into one. Under the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/03\/mlk\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLK<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}