{"id":17581,"date":"2021-10-22T01:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T01:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17581"},"modified":"2021-10-22T01:52:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T01:52:03","slug":"catch-me-if-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17581","title":{"rendered":"catch me if you can&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/catch-me-if-you-can-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17587\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/catch-me-if-you-can-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/catch-me-if-you-can--300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/catch-me-if-you-can--768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Steve Bannon &amp; Donald Trump strike a pose before sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Luther King&#8217;s use of the quote , \u201cThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice\u201d is King\u2019s paraphrasing of a portion of a sermon delivered in 1853 by the abolitionist minister Theodore Parker. Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1810, Parker studied at Harvard Divinity School and eventually became an influential transcendentalist and minister in the Unitarian church. In that sermon, Parker said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <strong>\u201cI do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><cite> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Huffington Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Truth About &#8216;The Arc Of The Moral Universe&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obama&#8217;s favorite quote is more complicated \u2014 and less hopeful \u2014than we think.   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/author\/mychal-denzel-smith\"><\/a>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/author\/mychal-denzel-smith\">Mychal Denzel Smith, Guest Writer<time datetime=\"2018-01-18T05:49:07-0500\">01\/18\/2018 05:49am EST<\/time><time datetime=\"1516275183000\">&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong>Updated<\/strong>&nbsp;January 18, 2018<\/time><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Court-Painter-catch-me-if-you-can.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17591\" width=\"1000\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Court-Painter-catch-me-if-you-can.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Court-Painter-catch-me-if-you-can-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Court-Painter-catch-me-if-you-can-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King&#8217;s use of the quote , \u201cThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice\u201d is King\u2019s paraphrasing of a portion of a sermon delivered in 1853 by the abolitionist minister Theodore Parker. Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1810, Parker studied at Harvard Divinity School and eventually became an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;catch me if you can&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17581"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20428,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions\/20428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}