{"id":650888,"date":"2010-02-01T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/blog\/101-blog-posts\/641-illinois-should-be-proud-of-its-progressive-history"},"modified":"2010-02-01T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:09:48","slug":"illinois-should-be-proud-of-its-progressive-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/650888","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Should Be Proud of Its Progressive History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" style=\"width: 205px; margin-right: 8px; height: 176px\" height=\"429\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/images\/stories\/2010\/black-history-month.jpg?resize=500%2C429\" \/>145 years ago today, the Illinois legislature ratified one of the single-most important amendments to the United States\u2019 Constitution:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>145 years ago today, the Illinois legislature ratified one of the single-most important amendments to the United States\u2019 Constitution: &quot;Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"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-650888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Jkc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650888","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\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}