{"id":13179,"date":"2020-08-03T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T18:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2020-08-03T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T18:33:46","slug":"john-lewiss-final-words-as-read-by-morgan-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/03\/john-lewiss-final-words-as-read-by-morgan-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis&#8217;s final words, as read by Morgan Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Might be the best five minutes you&#8217;ll spend today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Morgan Freeman reads Rep. John Lewis\u2019 last words: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXa7Vn8Ar6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/30\/opinion\/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html\">The essay&#8217;s text<\/a> appears in the New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might be the best five minutes you&#8217;ll spend today: Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13180,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions\/13180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}