{"id":11332,"date":"2011-11-14T15:10:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11332"},"modified":"2011-11-14T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:26:16","slug":"navy-ship-named-for-civil-rights-leader-evers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11332","title":{"rendered":"Navy Ship Named For Civil Rights Leader Evers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO &#8211;\u00a0 The widow of <strong>Medgar Evers<\/strong> broke a bottle of champagne against the hull of a new Navy ship that has been named in honor of the slain civil rights leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myrlie Evers<\/strong> was among a thousand people who attended the christening of the USNS <strong>Medgar Evers<\/strong> in San Diego on Saturday. The 689-foot cargo ship will deliver food, ammunition, fuel and other provisions to Navy combat ships at sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medgar Evers<\/strong>, a World War II veteran and field secretary for the NAACP, was shot to death in 1963.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of African American activist Medgar Evers, christened the ship.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO &#8211;\u00a0 The widow of Medgar Evers broke a bottle of champagne against the hull of a new Navy ship that has been named in honor of the slain civil rights leader. Myrlie Evers was among a thousand people who attended the christening of the USNS Medgar Evers in San Diego on Saturday. The [&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-11332","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\/11332","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=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}