{"id":181555,"date":"2021-03-29T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=181555"},"modified":"2021-03-23T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T07:43:49","slug":"the-ultimate-measure-of-a-man-is-not-where-he-stands-in-moments-of-comfort-and-convenience-but-where-he-stands-at-times-of-challenge-and-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/03\/the-ultimate-measure-of-a-man-is-not-where-he-stands-in-moments-of-comfort-and-convenience-but-where-he-stands-at-times-of-challenge-and-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, Baptist minister, and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in the USA.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148276\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/martin-luther-king.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/martin-luther-king-300x153.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/martin-luther-king-300x153.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/martin-luther-king-1024x522.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/martin-luther-king-768x391.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/martin-luther-king.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)<br \/>Stephen F. Somerstein\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, Baptist minister, and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":148276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[867,2436,1341,657,260,1780,2255,70],"class_list":["post-181555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-anglo-america","tag-black-america","tag-black-culture","tag-civil-rights","tag-history","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-quotes","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181555","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=181555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}