{"id":29,"date":"2009-10-06T22:55:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/testServer\/?p=29"},"modified":"2018-09-30T02:13:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T02:13:39","slug":"statement-in-support-of-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/statement-in-support-of-juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement in Support of Juneteenth &#8211; June 19, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Laura-Richardson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-142\" style=\"margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 50px;\" title=\"Laura-Richardson\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Laura-Richardson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Congresswoman Laura Richardson of California presented a Statement in Support of Juneteenth into the Congressional Record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" align=\"center\"><strong>June 19, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Congresswoman Laura Richardson of California<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;\" align=\"justify\">Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize June 19, 2009, or \u201cJuneteenth,\u201d the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States\u2026..<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" align=\"justify\">\u2026Madam Speaker, I would also like to note that in California\u2019s 37<sup>th<\/sup> Congressional District the cities of Carson, Compton, and Long Beach, which I am proud to represent, celebrated Juneteenth in a very special way. In Long Beach, The MusicUntold Orchestra and Chorale performed the <em>Bicentennial Symphony,<\/em> by composer Roy Harris, which is considered the most powerful musical statement ever made on slavery in the United States\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Laura Richardson of California presented a Statement in Support of Juneteenth into the Congressional Record. June 19, 2009 Congresswoman Laura Richardson of California Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize June 19, 2009, or \u201cJuneteenth,\u201d the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States\u2026.. \u2026Madam Speaker, I would also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,11],"tags":[104,101,102,103],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2009-projects","category-junteenth2009","tag-bicentennial-symphony","tag-juneteenth","tag-laura-richardson","tag-roy-harris","category-43","category-11","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15492,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/15492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}