{"id":44,"date":"2007-06-19T06:35:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/juneteenth-day\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T06:35:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T11:35:51","slug":"juneteenth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/juneteenth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on the news this morning that it&#8217;s Juneteenth Day today.\u00a0 They\u00a0were talking about the riots that broke out last year at the celebrations and how the police are trying to avoid that this year.\u00a0 They showed video of last year&#8217;s celebrations and Juneteenth Day parade and explained that the parade starts at 10AM today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea what Juneteenth Day was, so I went to this website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneteenth.com\/\">http:\/\/www.juneteenth.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0 I read that it&#8217;s the celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation &#8211; the end of slavery in the United States.\u00a0 It seems like this is a celebration in which everyone should be participating.\u00a0 We should all be happy that slavery is illegal now.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe that it&#8217;s a holiday I knew nothing about.\u00a0 People everywhere should be off work for the celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation.\u00a0 This should be a very important day for us.\u00a0 Why is it one of those holidays only celebrated in small sections of the city and completely ignored in other areas?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty good at asking these questions, but not so good at coming up with answers.\u00a0 At least not so good at coming up with answers I find acceptable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 6\/22\/07:<\/strong> So sad.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing I can say to defend the actions of the people who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaystmj4.com\/news\/local\/8083422.html\">beat a man after the Juneteenth Celebrations<\/a>.\u00a0 Maybe, if we made the celebration more mainstream and put it downtown, it could be safer.\u00a0 I&#8217;m at a loss for words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on the news this morning that it&#8217;s Juneteenth Day today.\u00a0 They\u00a0were talking about the riots that broke out last year at the celebrations and how the police are trying to avoid that this year.\u00a0 They showed video of last year&#8217;s celebrations and Juneteenth Day parade and explained that the parade starts at 10AM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,35,45,83],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-ethics","tag-holidays","tag-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}