{"id":6873,"date":"2026-08-28T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:22:17","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6873","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King, Jr. Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his <i>I Have a Dream<\/i> speech in 1963<\/strong> in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Children can read the original text at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/press\/exhibits\/dream-speech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dream Speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_7444\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7444\" class=\"  wp-image-7444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MLK-Monu-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"MLK Monu\" width=\"166\" height=\"251\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was dedicated in 2001 in Washington, DC<\/strong>. Situated between the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial, the very impressive Stone of Hope statue by Lei Yixin stands 28 feet 6 inches tall. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/mlkm\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLK Memorial<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech in 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Children can read the original text at: Dream Speech. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was dedicated in 2001 in Washington, DC. Situated between the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial, the very impressive <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6873' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4518,5816,721,1354,1352,1355,1351,1353,490],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4518","tag-august-28","tag-dc","tag-i-have-a-dream","tag-jr-memorial","tag-lei-yixin","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-stone-of-hope","tag-washington","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29663,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions\/29663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}