{"id":9439,"date":"2011-08-29T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2011-08-29T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:04:38","slug":"respect-for-mlk-cant-be-swept-away-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9439","title":{"rendered":"Respect For MLK Can&#8217;t Be Swept Away By Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many people were canceling trips to Washington, D.C. this weekend, <strong>Verrett Poole-Strickland<\/strong> braved her journey eastward because she wasn&#8217;t going to miss &#8220;one of the most memorable moments in history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of the violent Hurricane Irene was very real for cities up and down the East Coast. Still, many African-Americans came from all over the country to honor the memory of <strong>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr<\/strong>.<strong> Poole-Strickland<\/strong>, 49, even made sure her nephew and two children took the trip from St. Paul, Minn. with her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate it in a way,&#8221; she said about the hurricane warning that will postpone the official dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial statue until sometime in the early fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many people were canceling trips to Washington, D.C. this weekend, Verrett Poole-Strickland braved her journey eastward because she wasn&#8217;t going to miss &#8220;one of the most memorable moments in history&#8221;. The threat of the violent Hurricane Irene was very real for cities up and down the East Coast. Still, many African-Americans came from all [&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-9439","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\/9439","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=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}