{"id":9704,"date":"2011-09-08T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T19:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9704"},"modified":"2011-09-08T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T15:36:43","slug":"mlk-memorial-architect-says-inscription-will-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9704","title":{"rendered":"MLK Memorial Architect Says Inscription Will Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> &#8212; The executive architect of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington says an inscription on the monument won&#8217;t be changed, despite criticism from poet <strong>Maya Angelou<\/strong> that it makes King sound arrogant.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Jackson Jr.<\/strong> said he stands by the paraphrased line from <strong>King&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;drum major&#8221; sermon in 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>King<\/strong> said, &#8220;If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness.&#8221; The shortened version reads: &#8220;I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jackson<\/strong> says the line has historical perspective and allows <strong>King<\/strong> to define himself. He says there is no way it can be altered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The executive architect of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington says an inscription on the monument won&#8217;t be changed, despite criticism from poet Maya Angelou that it makes King sound arrogant. Ed Jackson Jr. said he stands by the paraphrased line from King&#8217;s &#8220;drum major&#8221; sermon in 1968. King said, [&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-9704","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\/9704","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=9704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}