{"id":47439,"date":"2011-06-27T10:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/47439\/heroes-malcolm\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T10:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T14:45:06","slug":"heroes-malcolm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/47439\/heroes-malcolm\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Malcolm X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Little, known as Malcolm X, was a two bit hustler who became a world traveler and an eloquent speaker for civil rights of African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>While in prison he converted to the Nation of Islam.  Because of his gift of public speaking he became a leader.  <\/p>\n<p>When he made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he found that there were Muslims of all races and that had a profound affect on him.<\/p>\n<p>As long as he ranted that the white man was the devil, as long as he advocated the separation of whites from blacks, he was not a threat.  Once he began to question these ideas, he became a threat.<\/p>\n<p>While the Nation of Islam may have been used to assassinate him, I am convinced that it was with the help of the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Had Malcolm X lived he would have had a profound affect on America.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Little, known as Malcolm X, was a two bit hustler who became a world traveler and an eloquent speaker for civil rights of African-Americans. While in prison he converted to the Nation of Islam. Because of his gift of public speaking he became a leader. When he made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}