{"id":598,"date":"2018-01-12T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2018-01-12T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:08:44","slug":"mlk-jr-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"MLK Jr. Holiday Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you look forward to a 3 day weekend today.\u00a0 Martin Luther King Jr. is the name of the individual who&#8217;s on this holiday.\u00a0 He led a great movement.\u00a0 But he wasn&#8217;t the only one. I challenge you to do your own little history reading this weekend. You decide and think for yourself. Don&#8217;t just let the media report on it and influence you.\u00a0 If you can visit a nearby museum to remember, learn more, and reflect. My personal favorite is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ahc.alabama.gov\/properties\/freedomrides\/freedomrides.aspx\">The Freedom Riders Museum in Montgomery, Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, reflect on your character and MLK Jr.&#8217;s words, &#8220;I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.&#8221; Will you too join in with the courage that the Freedom Riders did? Click on the green RojoMLKJRrDay\u00a0 link below to down load a blank copy of the coloring sheet shown.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redpandanetwork.org\/red-panda-wisdom-from-a-cub-called-rojo\/\">https:\/\/redpandanetwork.org\/red-panda-wisdom-from-a-cub-called-rojo\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/RojoMLKJrDay.docx\">RojoMLKJrDay<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MLK-Jr-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-602\" src=\"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MLK-Jr-day-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"MLK Jr day\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MLK-Jr-day-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MLK-Jr-day.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you look forward to a 3 day weekend today.\u00a0 Martin Luther King Jr. is the name of the individual who&#8217;s on this holiday.\u00a0 He led a great movement.\u00a0 But he wasn&#8217;t the only one. I challenge you to do your own little history reading this weekend. You decide and think for yourself. Don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/?p=598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLK Jr. Holiday Weekend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}