{"id":490,"date":"2025-01-08T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=490"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:58:32","slug":"21-january-2012-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/01\/08\/21-january-2012-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"20 January, 2025: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Martin-Luther-King.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-290\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Martin-Luther-King.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Luther King\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0(January 15, 1929\u00a0\u2013 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the\u00a0<a title=\"African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955\u20131968)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)\">African-American Civil Rights Movement<\/a>. He is best known for his role in the advancement of\u00a0<a title=\"Civil and political rights\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_and_political_rights\">civil rights<\/a>\u00a0using nonviolent\u00a0<a title=\"Civil disobedience\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_disobedience\">civil disobedience<\/a>. King has become a national icon in the history of\u00a0<a title=\"American progressivism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_progressivism\">American progressivism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0<a title=\"Federal holidays in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States\">United States federal holiday<\/a>\u00a0marking the\u00a0<a title=\"Birthday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birthday\">birthday<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Reverend\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reverend\">Rev.<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Doctor of Divinity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_of_Divinity\">Dr.<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Martin Luther King, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.\">Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>\u00a0It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of King&#8217;s birthday, January 15. The floating holiday is similar to holidays set under the\u00a0<a title=\"Uniform Monday Holiday Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uniform_Monday_Holiday_Act\">Uniform Monday Holiday Act<\/a>, though the act predated the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00a0(January 15, 1929\u00a0\u2013 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the\u00a0African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of\u00a0civil rights\u00a0using nonviolent\u00a0civil disobedience. King has become a national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/01\/08\/21-january-2012-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}