{"id":51896,"date":"2011-07-16T19:52:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T23:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/51896\/heroes-huey-long\/"},"modified":"2011-07-16T19:52:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T23:52:31","slug":"heroes-huey-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/51896\/heroes-huey-long\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Huey Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy voice will be the same as it has been. Patronage will not change it.<br \/>\nFear will not change it. Persecution will not change it.<br \/>\nIt cannot be changed while people suffer. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable. No one will ever hear political opposition out of me when that is done.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Huey Long, on the floor of<br \/>\nthe U.S. Senate, March 5 1935 <\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Long was revered by the masses as a champion of the common man and demonized by the powerful as a dangerous demagogue. <\/p>\n<p>Had it not been for an assassins&#8217; bullet, he could very well have unseated Roosevelt and became President.  He used every dirty trick in the book to fight for the common man.   Unlike many of the politicians in the south during his time, he refused to use bigotry and racial hatred as a tool to get elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy voice will be the same as it has been. Patronage will not change it. Fear will not change it. Persecution will not change it. It cannot be changed while people suffer. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable. No one will ever hear [&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-51896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51896","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=51896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}