{"id":62102,"date":"2019-01-21T20:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T20:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=62102"},"modified":"2019-01-21T20:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T20:10:58","slug":"remembering-mlk-jr-pence-on-trump-gene-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=62102","title":{"rendered":"Remembering MLK Jr: Pence on Trump, Gene Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; <em>in memoriam, ad vitam<\/em> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and <strong>Mike Pence<\/strong> on the eve of <strong>MLK Day<\/strong> compares <strong>President Trump<\/strong> to the <strong>Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Doofus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Since so many media outlets have excellent <strong>MLK <\/strong>photos and fine tributes today &#8212; or are talking on and on about &#8220;not building bridges, building walls&#8221; or the reverse &#8212; let me just say that the best way to honor <strong>Dr King<\/strong> is to possess, purchase or borrow <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeinstein.org\/\">Gene Sharp<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s definitive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Power-Struggle-Politics-Nonviolent-Action\/dp\/087558070X\">trilogy<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gene-sharp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gene-sharp.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gene-sharp-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; to take the hint in <strong>Sharp<\/strong>&#8216;s title, and put the ideal of nonviolence into practical, active living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; in memoriam, ad vitam ] . &#8230; and Mike Pence on the eve of MLK Day compares President Trump to the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr! Doofus. ** Since so many media outlets have excellent MLK photos and fine tributes today &#8212; or are talking on and on about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,575,526,1314,1772,255,848,782,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-character","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-gene-sharp","category-mlk","category-nonviolence","category-pacifism","category-recommended-reading","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62102"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62115,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62102\/revisions\/62115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}