{"id":6746,"date":"2026-01-19T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:44:24","slug":"words-of-mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2026\/01\/19\/words-of-mlk\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of MLK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>If you don&rsquo;t have anything nice to say, perhaps you shouldn&rsquo;t say anything. Nevertheless&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The arc of the moral universe might bend toward justice, but that arc is evidently quite long [<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.library.si.edu\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/the-arc-of-the-moral-universe\/\">MLK speech<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/11\/15\/arc-of-universe\/#51e889aa-c0cf-485d-a8bf-593c7f3cee44-link\">Unitarian origins<\/a>]. I once lived in times in which its bending was manifest, but times have changed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today plain spaces are made rough. The straight are made crooked. Valleys are filled, and hills and mountains raised [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/mlkihaveadream.htm\">MLK speech<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Isaiah%2040:4-5&amp;version=KJV\">Isaiah 40:4-5 origins<\/a>]. The twentieth century grows distant in the rear view mirror. The arc is bending the other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&rsquo;t have anything nice to say, perhaps you shouldn&rsquo;t say anything. Nevertheless&#8230; The arc of the moral universe might bend toward justice, but that arc is evidently quite long [MLK speech, Unitarian origins]. I once lived in times in which its bending was manifest, but times have changed.&nbsp; Today plain spaces are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}