{"id":9971,"date":"2011-09-19T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9971"},"modified":"2011-09-19T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:00:07","slug":"stamp-honors-political-trailblazer-barbara-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9971","title":{"rendered":"Stamp Honors Political Trailblazer Barbara Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> &#8212; Former <strong>U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan<\/strong> of Texas now has her own postage stamp. It&#8217;s the 34th in the post office&#8217;s Black Heritage series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan<\/strong> served three terms in Congress and in 1976 was the first woman and the first African-American to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic national convention. She described Americans as &#8220;a people in search of a national community&#8221; and said Americans were attempting to create a society &#8220;in which all of us are equal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new forever stamp was issued in<strong> Jordan&#8217;s<\/strong> hometown of Houston and is on sale nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas now has her own postage stamp. It&#8217;s the 34th in the post office&#8217;s Black Heritage series. Jordan served three terms in Congress and in 1976 was the first woman and the first African-American to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic national convention. She described Americans [&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-9971","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\/9971","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=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}