{"id":54258,"date":"2011-07-31T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/54258\/heroes-frederick-douglas\/"},"modified":"2011-07-31T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:02:11","slug":"heroes-frederick-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/54258\/heroes-frederick-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Frederick Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hero\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1c\/Frederick_Douglass_portrait.jpg\/240px-Frederick_Douglass_portrait.jpg\" title=\"Frederick Douglass\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"240\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.&#8221;  Frederick Douglas<\/p>\n<p>From slave to orator and world traveler, Frederick Douglas lived a very unusual life.  He was a runaway slave and people in England purchased his freedom from his former owner.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of a couple of his owner&#8217;s wives, he taught himself to read and write.<\/p>\n<p>He was very much involved in the abolitionist  movement.  He also felt strongly about women\u2019s  rights and suffrage.  He felt that as a black man, he could not accept the right to vote if women were not allowed to vote.<\/p>\n<p>He was very much involved in both the abolitionist and suffrage movements.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.&#8221; Frederick Douglas From slave to orator and world traveler, Frederick Douglas lived [&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-54258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54258","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=54258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}