{"id":109254,"date":"2002-12-17T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109254"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T22:26:18","slug":"gimme-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109254","title":{"rendered":"Gimme a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure we in America, certainly not white America, people in the South, fully understood who this man was, the impact he has had on the fabric of this country.&#8221; &#8212; <em>Trent Lott, discussing Martin Luther King Jr., on his BET interview <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trent? I think that YOU are the one who does not fully understand who &#8220;this man&#8221; was. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, his birthday is a federal holiday, a federal holiday which you voted against. <\/p>\n<p>YOU are the one who does not get the &#8220;impact&#8221;. YOU. Only YOU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure we in America, certainly not white America, people in the South, fully understood who this man was, the impact he has had on the fabric of this country.&#8221; &#8212; Trent Lott, discussing Martin Luther King Jr., on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109254\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109255,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109254\/revisions\/109255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}