{"id":19438,"date":"2024-07-23T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=19438"},"modified":"2024-08-03T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T21:51:27","slug":"the-jubilation-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/23\/the-jubilation-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"not just on the jubilation of freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>loved this description of the juneteenth holiday, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/19\/us\/sheila-jackson-lee-dead.html\">representative sheila jackson lee&#8217;s obituary<\/a> (bolding my own):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Ms. Jackson Lee was the author and lead sponsor of the legislation that in 2021 established Juneteenth \u2014 commemorating the day in 1865 when the last slaves in Texas finally learned of their freedom \u2014 as the first new federal holiday in 38 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought it was extremely important,\u201d she said on CNN in 2022 \u201cto pass a federal holiday that would <strong>give America a moment to be able to reflect not just on the jubilation of freedom, but also the brutality of slavery and what it meant to human beings<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>loved this description of the juneteenth holiday, from representative sheila jackson lee&#8217;s obituary (bolding my own): Ms. Jackson Lee was the author and lead sponsor of the legislation that in 2021 established Juneteenth \u2014 commemorating the day in 1865 when the last slaves in Texas finally learned of their freedom \u2014 as the first new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-19438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19456,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438\/revisions\/19456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}