{"id":555,"date":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/a-tragic-death-wish"},"modified":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","slug":"a-tragic-death-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/a-tragic-death-wish","title":{"rendered":"A Tragic Death Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>January 30, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This year&rsquo;s Martin Luther King march to my neighborhood in honor of the great victim of gun violence, and the recent virtual murder of Dr. King&rsquo;s spiritual heir Aaron Swartz by federal authorities<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death&#8230; There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from re-ordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>-Dr. Martin Luther King, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article2564.htm\">Riverside Church NYC, April 4, 1967<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 30, 2013 This year&rsquo;s Martin Luther King march to my neighborhood in honor of the great victim of gun violence, and the recent virtual murder of Dr. King&rsquo;s spiritual heir Aaron Swartz by federal authorities A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albanyweblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}