{"id":5628,"date":"2016-06-13T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2016-06-13T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:25:42","slug":"orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2016\/06\/13\/orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-10.03.11-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-10.03.11-AM-303x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-13 at 10.03.11 AM\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5625 size-medium\" height=\"300\" width=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-10.03.11-AM-303x300.png 303w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-10.03.11-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-10.03.11-AM-1024x1015.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-10.03.11-AM.png 1614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stony the road we trod,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bitter the chast\u2019ning rod,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet with a steady beat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Have not our weary feet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Out from the gloomy past,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Till now we stand at last<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">from \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing\u201d<br \/>\nBy James Weldon Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Is calling this a tragedy too poetic?\u00a0 Hatred and violence deserve nothing less than the ugly descriptors of atrocities \u2013 if they \u201cdeserve\u201d at all.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to keep my faith \u2013 the hope that the status quo changes and that love continues its work with me.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of this City has called us to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_coverage\/2016\/06\/mayor_slates_vigil_tonight_for_florida_victims\">gather this evening<\/a> in awakened and in purposeful solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to contact us if you need to talk.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast\u2019ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come, treading our path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}