{"id":31495,"date":"2018-04-03T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?p=31495"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:31:21","slug":"mlk-50-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/mlk-50-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK, 50 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">On the night of April 4, 1968, civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS\u201955, Hon.\u201959) was gunned down on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tenn.\u00a0As the nation commemorates the 50th anniversary of MLK\u2019s death,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>BU Today\u00a0<\/em>reached out to several BU faculty, staff, and students, asking them to reflect on King\u2019s legacy. Read their essays and view their videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2018\/martin-luther-king-jr-legacy\/?utm_campaign=bu_today_2018&amp;utm_source=email_0405&amp;utm_medium=sidebar_feature&amp;utm_content=community\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BU community reflects on the civil rights leader\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15047,"featured_media":31752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32707,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31495\/revisions\/32707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}