{"id":1556,"date":"2013-01-21T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2020-01-20T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T20:00:18","slug":"a-celebration-barack-obama-and-sojourner-truth-share-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration: Barack Obama and Sojourner Truth share a moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/twenty20\/private_images\/t_watermark-criss-cross-10\/v1477280975000\/photosp\/718ee4d1-7063-47d0-9909-3f3ccc7c400e\/stock-photo-wall-michigan-graffiti-woman-phrase-motivation-wall-art-truth-motivational-718ee4d1-7063-47d0-9909-3f3ccc7c400e.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/politics\/2013\/01\/text-obamas-inaugural-address\/61224\/\">We, the people, declare today<\/a> that the most evident of truths \u2013- that all of us are created equal \u2013- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/sojtruth-woman.asp\">If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone<\/a>, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The struggle continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths \u2013- that all of us are created equal \u2013- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[471,1802,1801,1804,1803],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-selma","tag-seneca-falls","tag-sojourner-truth","tag-stonewall","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23661,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/23661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}