{"id":954,"date":"2011-03-25T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=954"},"modified":"2011-03-25T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T19:10:35","slug":"it-was-46-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/03\/25\/it-was-46-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It was 46 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you look really closely at the picture of the crowd arriving in Montgomery, Alabama on March 25, 1965, you might spot a teenage me&#8230;Just kidding. Of course you can&#8217;t pick me out, but I was there.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/section\/learning\/general\/onthisday\/big\/0325_big.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See full NY Times <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/on-this-day\/March-25\/?th=&amp;emc=tha213&amp;nl=todaysheadlines\">article<\/a> from that day.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I feel a bit like the old lady in Allan Gurganus&#8217;s novel Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. Seeing the\u00a0 mention of the 1965 event in today&#8217;s NY Times jumped out at me, because I was there. Or, some six-lifetimes-past version of Ellen was there. What I do remember is that we lived in a different country. All along the route from Selma to Montgomery, signs separated services and access for whites and blacks. And, for some of the black Americans I met on the march, shaking hands with a white person like me was a first&#8230;and for some of us whites, it may have been a first to shake hands with a black person. This is not to say that the US has conquered its racial issues, but we sure have come a distance from that day in Montgomergy 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I just stumbled on this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/25\/gotta-watch-65-freedom-march-cherry-blossoms-modern-rome\/?hpt=C2\">video<\/a> at the CNN.com site today&#8211;and learned that only about 300 people were allowed on the road to Montgomery after the first day out from Selma. I did not remember this. And, yes, I looked closely at the film but couldn&#8217;t spot my teenage self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look really closely at the picture of the crowd arriving in Montgomery, Alabama [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}