{"id":646665,"date":"2010-01-28T16:34:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75120"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:34:51","slug":"john-lewis-zinn%e2%80%99s-death-a-%e2%80%98tremendous-loss%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/646665","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis: Zinn\u2019s Death a \u2018Tremendous Loss\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From one human rights champion to another, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) just issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/johnlewis.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=730&amp;Itemid=1\" >statement<\/a> on yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/28\/us\/28zinn.html?em\" >passing<\/a> of Howard Zinn, praising the former Spelman College historian as one &#8220;who not only wrote history but lived and made history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[I]t was his voice crying out, speaking out, organizing teach-ins against the war in Vietnam that had a major impact on mobilizing people all across America in the work to end our involvement in South East Asia. The death of Howard Zinn is a tremendous loss to a generation of young people who came to know him and love him as a teacher, but also as a friend.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zinn, 87, died Wednesday of a heart attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From one human rights champion to another, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) just issued a statement on yesterday&#8217;s passing of Howard Zinn, praising the former Spelman College historian as one &#8220;who not only wrote history but lived and made history.&#8221; [I]t was his voice crying out, speaking out, organizing teach-ins against the war in Vietnam that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ie5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}