{"id":7088,"date":"2013-08-28T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2013-08-28T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:31:40","slug":"fifty-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2013\/08\/fifty-years-ago.html","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2013\/08\/martin-luthur-king-and-gandhi-cartoon.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2013\/08\/martin-luthur-king-and-gandhi-cartoon.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"martin-luthur-king-and-gandhi-cartoon\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7089\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step by step the dream is being realized.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve come a good way. 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