{"id":1614,"date":"2013-01-21T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T06:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/?p=74"},"modified":"2013-01-21T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T06:30:30","slug":"martin-luther-king-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/01\/21\/martin-luther-king-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_476\" style=\"width: 160px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/01\/martin-lkjr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Martin Luther King\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> Dr. Martin Luther King\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday held on the third Monday of January. It celebrates the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr., an influential American civil rights leader. He is most well-known for his campaigns to end racial segregation on public transport and for racial equality in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Each year schools, federal offices, post office and banks across America close as we celebrate <em><em>the birth, the life<\/em><\/em> and <em><em>the dream<\/em><\/em> of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00a0 It is an occasion for joy and celebration for his life and his work toward nonviolent social change in America and the world.<\/p>\n<p>It took many years for Congress to decide to celebrate the holiday.\u00a0 In the years leading up to the official decree many African-Americans celebrated the birthday themselves with a few states declaring King\u2019s birthday a state holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was finally passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate and was signed into law on November 2, 1983. \u00a0The first national celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday took place January 20, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Martin Luther King Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[136,232,258],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dr-martin-luther-king","tag-holiday","tag-january"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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