{"id":1672,"date":"2011-01-17T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2010-07-04T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T01:35:21","slug":"rev-martin-luther-king-jr-s-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">In a famous line from Dr. King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/mlkihaveadream.htm\">I Have a Dream\u00e2\u20ac\u009d speech<\/a>, he says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">To illustrate Dr. King&#8217;s message, show your child a brown egg and a white egg. Then break the eggs open. Remind your child that (just like the eggs) though people might look different on the outside, they are the same on the inside. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">Finish off the discussion by explaining that Dr. King was a civil rights leader who worked for the equal treatment of African-Americans in a time in America when their were denied the same rights and privileges as white Americans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">Ask your child the complete this sentence: &#8220;I have a dream that one day all people will __________.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">For info about Dr. King, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/thekingcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #ff9900;\">The King Center<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a famous line from Dr. King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Have a Dream\u00e2\u20ac\u009d speech, he says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0 To illustrate Dr. King&#8217;s message, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40,73,8,10,68],"tags":[155,207,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}