{"id":2456,"date":"2012-01-16T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/martin-luther-king-in-the-era-of-occupy.html"},"modified":"2012-01-16T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:45:00","slug":"martin-luther-king-in-the-era-of-occupy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/martin-luther-king-in-the-era-of-occupy.html","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy"},"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><div class=\"dropcap\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #555555;font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none\">On August 28, 1963, King delivered his most famous address, the \u201cDream\u201d speech. Back in Birmingham a little over two weeks later, King\u2019s dream turned into a nightmare.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #555555;font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none\">On the morning of September 15, 1963, a group of nearly thirty black children sat in a basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church, awaiting the closing prayers of a sermon entitled \u201cThe Love That Forgives.\u201d Upstairs, adult black congregants gathered for the upcoming service. They had seen a lot in their town over the last several months. 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