{"id":16666,"date":"2020-06-20T03:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T03:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16666"},"modified":"2020-06-20T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T14:44:57","slug":"recollections-of-dc-emancipation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/recollections-of-dc-emancipation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Recollections of DC Emancipation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/emancipation-day.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"244\" data-large_image_height=\"207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16667\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/emancipation-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In April 2014, I visited Washington DC to prepare for a concert to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment in 2015 at Constitution Hall. I observed a FREEDOM Day Parade and was confused because I annually celebrated and had produced many JUNTEETH Celebration on June 19th in Long Beach, Ca and I was born in Texas. I learned that slaves in the capital were emancipated before President Lincoln&#8217;s Proclamation and slave owners in the District of Columbia were paid for the loss of their property (human beings).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/civil_war\/DCEmancipationAct_FeaturedDoc.htm\">https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/civil_war\/DCEmancipationAct_FeaturedDoc.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2014, I visited Washington DC to prepare for a concert to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment in 2015 at Constitution Hall. I observed a FREEDOM Day Parade and was confused because I annually celebrated and had produced many JUNTEETH Celebration on June 19th in Long Beach, Ca and I was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[101,403],"class_list":["post-16666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-juneteenth","tag-junteeth-celebration","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16670,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions\/16670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}