{"id":10055,"date":"2011-09-22T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2011-09-22T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:14:15","slug":"white-house-rejects-pardon-for-marcus%c2%a0garvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10055","title":{"rendered":"White House Rejects Pardon For Marcus\u00a0Garvey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House isn&#8217;t letting <strong>Marcus Garvey<\/strong> off the hook even after his demise. <strong>Donovan Parker<\/strong>, a Jamaican attorney in Florida, who has been writing to the U.S. President every week requesting a posthumous presidential pardon for <strong>Garvey<\/strong> was denied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the general policy of the Department of Justice that requests for posthumous pardons for federal offenses not be processed for adjudication,&#8221; <strong>Ronald Rogers<\/strong>, White House pardon attorney told <strong>Parker<\/strong> in a letter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garvey<\/strong> was convicted in the 1920s of mail fraud and was incarcerated for almost three years before he was released and deported to Jamaica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House isn&#8217;t letting Marcus Garvey off the hook even after his demise. Donovan Parker, a Jamaican attorney in Florida, who has been writing to the U.S. President every week requesting a posthumous presidential pardon for Garvey was denied. &#8220;It is the general policy of the Department of Justice that requests for posthumous pardons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}