{"id":126567,"date":"2019-02-04T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=126567"},"modified":"2019-01-24T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:07:10","slug":"a-dead-mans-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/02\/a-dead-mans-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dead Man\u2019s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Short but poignant poem written by black poet\/musician Carl Wendell Hines soon after Malcolm X\u2019s assassination in 1965. The poem has also been appropriately associated with the death of Dr Martin Luther King and his legacy of nonviolent struggle for black liberation, freedom, equality, economic justice and the pursuit of happiness for all.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that he is safely dead,<br \/>\nLet us praise him.<br \/>\nBuild monuments to his glory.<br \/>\nSing Hosannas to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Dead men make such convenient heroes.<br \/>\nFor they cannot rise to challenge the images<br \/>\nThat we might fashion from their lives.<br \/>\nIt is easier to build monuments<br \/>\nThan to build a better world.<\/p>\n<p>So now that he is safely dead,<br \/>\nWe, with eased consciences will<br \/>\nTeach our children that he was a great man,<br \/>\nKnowing that the cause for which he<br \/>\nLived is still a cause<br \/>\nAnd the dream for which he died is still a dream.<br \/>\nA dead man\u2019s dream.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Now-That-He-Is-Safely-Dead-The-Construction-of-the-Myth-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.-1929-1968-by-Massimo-Rubboli.gif\" ><em>___________________________________<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126568\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Now-That-He-Is-Safely-Dead-The-Construction-of-the-Myth-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.-1929-1968-by-Massimo-Rubboli.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126568\" class=\"wp-image-126568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Now-That-He-Is-Safely-Dead-The-Construction-of-the-Myth-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.-1929-1968-by-Massimo-Rubboli.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now That He Is Safely Dead- The Construction of the Myth of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) by Massimo Rubboli<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short but poignant poem written by black poet\/musician Carl Wendell Hines soon after Malcolm X\u2019s assassination in 1965. The poem has also been appropriately associated with the death of Dr Martin Luther King and his legacy of nonviolent struggle for black liberation, freedom, equality, economic justice and the pursuit of happiness for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":126568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}