{"id":130,"date":"2010-12-01T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T22:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2010-12-06T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:11:00","slug":"on-this-date-dec-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/on-this-date-dec-1\/","title":{"rendered":"On this date (Dec 1)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rosa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rosa.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rosa\" width=\"455\" height=\"308\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rosa.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rosa-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>On this date (Dec 1) in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not punching a bozo in the nose&#8230; I mean, she was arrested for not giving up her bus seat for white passengers when ordered to do so by the bus driver. <\/p>\n<p>Parks received quite a few honors over the years, including the <b>Springarn Medal<\/b>, the <b>Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/b>, the <b>Congressional Gold Medal<\/b>, and a posthumous statue in the capitol&#8217;s <b>National Statuary Hall<\/b>. I doubt the awards and honors made up for the years of crap she put up with, but I am sure she appreciated them. <\/p>\n<p>James F. Blake, the bus driver who called the cops on her and signed the warrant for her arrest was awarded by <b><i>not<\/i><\/b> getting punched in the nose. <\/p>\n<p>This incident is an excellent example of a case where simply because something is legal doesn&#8217;t make it Right &#8211; and doing something illegal isn&#8217;t necessarily Wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Rock on, Rosa! I&#8217;m pysched to remember that you&#8217;re in a place now that&#8217;s much better than Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m guessing you&#8217;ve got a great seat!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date (Dec 1) in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not punching a bozo in the nose&#8230; I mean, she was arrested for not giving up her bus seat for white passengers when ordered to do so by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,104,103,106,105,109,84,107,108,101,100],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikeypedia","tag-bus-boycott","tag-civil-disobedience","tag-civil-rights-movement","tag-equality","tag-freedom","tag-hero","tag-history","tag-justice","tag-mlk","tag-montgomery","tag-rosa-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}