{"id":510,"date":"2019-09-04T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T02:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=510"},"modified":"2019-09-04T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T02:39:27","slug":"mlk-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/04\/mlk-5\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I found interesting in the Carson article was that how closely we tie leaders with having charisma and how useful it is to have that characteristic if you are a leader and with MLK some people have made the argument that he wasn&#8217;t a charismatic leader and he avoided using charisma in his oratory. This is unusual because of how much MLK is perceived as a leader and how most leaders have charisma.<\/p>\n<p>To me MLK was one of the most important people in recent U.S history because of his influence in the African American community and how he has made an impact on today&#8217;s society. In his speeches some say that he didn&#8217;t have charisma and that he steered away from charisma which brings up the question of which qualities and characteristics did he have that he attracted so many followers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I found interesting in the Carson article was that how closely we tie leaders with having charisma and how useful it is to have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/04\/mlk-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLK<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","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\/510","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\/4439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}