{"id":770,"date":"2008-01-22T14:53:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-01-22T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:53:26","slug":"12208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"1\/22\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just telling someone yesterday that for Martin Luther King Day two years ago, \u00a0our family rode on a Koinoinia float in the Martin Luther King Day parade in Americus, Georgia. \u00a0 Koinoinia was the backwater Selma and Montgomery of the early 1950s. \u00a0 It was on the Koinoinia Farm that Blacks and Whites lived and worked together in community, with Blacks receiving equal pay, etc. \u00a0 This was unheard of at the time in the segregated South. \u00a0 And \u00a0the farm \u00a0became a lightening rod for protests, boycotts and violence. \u00a0 Yet Clarence Jordan, the Koinoinia Community founder, wouldn&#8217;t back down. \u00a0 Shortly after, I told the <em>Montgomery (AL) News<\/em> that it will take the same kind of vision, courage and sacrifice to help free people now from the &#8220;slavery&#8221; of inner city and rural poverty in this country and throughout the world. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> We are just readying for another series of campaign tours. \u00a0 And we are trying to raise donations: \u00a0 Schriner Presidential Election Committee, 2100 W. 38th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44113. \u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just telling someone yesterday that for Martin Luther King Day two years ago, \u00a0our family rode on a Koinoinia float in the Martin Luther King Day parade in Americus, Georgia. \u00a0 Koinoinia was the backwater Selma and Montgomery <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=770\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}