{"id":197657,"date":"2021-10-25T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=197657"},"modified":"2021-10-15T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T04:56:00","slug":"be-a-bush-if-you-cant-be-a-tree-if-you-cant-be-a-highway-just-be-a-trail-if-you-cant-be-a-sun-be-a-star-for-it-isnt-by-size-that-you-win-or-fail-be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/10\/be-a-bush-if-you-cant-be-a-tree-if-you-cant-be-a-highway-just-be-a-trail-if-you-cant-be-a-sun-be-a-star-for-it-isnt-by-size-that-you-win-or-fail-be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBe a bush if you can&#8217;t be a tree. If you can&#8217;t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can&#8217;t be a sun, be a star. For it isn&#8217;t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School, Philadelphia, 26 Oct 1967<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/martin-luther-king-jr-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/martin-luther-king-jr-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School, Philadelphia, 26 Oct 1967<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2255],"class_list":["post-197657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197657","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=197657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}