{"id":28452,"date":"2025-01-21T00:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=28452"},"modified":"2025-01-21T00:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:52:34","slug":"january-20-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=28452","title":{"rendered":"January 20 in America&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Martin Lurther King Jr. Day<\/strong> was signed into law in 1983, and first observed three years later on<strong> January 20,<\/strong> 1986. It continues to be celebrated each year in the USA on <strong>January 20th.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MLK-Day-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MLK-Day-1.png 848w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MLK-Day-1-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MLK-Day-1-768x578.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March 1968, <strong>Martin Luther King Jr<\/strong>.brought together a group of more than 50 leaders representing Black Belt sharecroppers, Appalachian coal miners, Chicano farmworkers, and American Indians, among others, to join the Poor People\u2019s Campaign. The poor, \u201cboth white and Negro, live in a cruelly unjust society,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EM-salutee.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28458\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EM-salutee.png 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EM-salutee-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On January 20\/2025 Donald J Trump was inaugurated as the US 47th President<\/strong>. Convicted felon Donald J Trump brought together a group of supporting tech billionaires, millionaires, election denying Republican lawmakers, grifters of all stripes and numerous merchants of Trump merch. The President&#8217;s wife <strong>Melania<\/strong> in celebration of the event launched her own cryptocurrency\u00a0Sunday on the\u00a0eve of her husband&#8217;s presidential inauguration, just a day after his own cryptocurrency was launched. Ethics be damned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>A star supporter of the new president , the morbidly richest man in the world <strong>Elon Musk <\/strong>exemplified the spirit of the event with his enthusiastic remarks and straight arm salute very reminiscent of a Seig Heil.<\/p><cite> <\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-20-at-7.25.01\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28461\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-20-at-7.25.01\u202fPM.png 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-20-at-7.25.01\u202fPM-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-20-at-7.25.01\u202fPM-768x550.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Elon-Musk-salute.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28459\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Elon-Musk-salute.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Elon-Musk-salute-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Elon-Musk-salute-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lurther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983, and first observed three years later on January 20, 1986. It continues to be celebrated each year in the USA on January 20th. In March 1968, Martin Luther King Jr.brought together a group of more than 50 leaders representing Black Belt sharecroppers, Appalachian coal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=28452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;January 20 in America&#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-28452","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\/28452","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=28452"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28471,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452\/revisions\/28471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}