{"id":1215,"date":"2010-10-27T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:04:46","slug":"john-hope-franklin-reconciliation-park-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5120668099\/\" title=\"IMG_3493 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3493\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5120668099_42f01027e6-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I crashed a party today. The grand opening of the long awaited opening of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhfcenter.org\/reconciliation-park\/\">Dr. John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park<\/a> in the Greenwood area of downtown Tulsa.<\/p>\n<p>The Park features a 25 foot tall memorial tower that depicts the history of the African American struggle starting in Africa and continuing until today and includes several segments concerning the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/encyclopedia\/entries\/t\/tu013.html\">Tulsa Race Riot of 1921<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5121270466\/\" title=\"IMG_3477 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3477\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/5121270466_499b5a4e5f-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All sorts of people were there. Including people with lots bigger cameras than mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5120668065\/\" title=\"IMG_3492 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3492\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5120668065_827cdc6ddc-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were politicians there. Many of them men with makeup on, perfect teeth, and nice haircuts. There were also lots of school kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5121270986\/\" title=\"IMG_3483 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3483\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5121270986_ae1fe382e2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a marching band.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5120665927\/\" title=\"IMG_3471 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3471\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5120665927_905a9834f6-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more to say on this great day for Tulsa later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5120668743\/\" title=\"IMG_3500 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5120668743_b8a1dd5092-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I crashed a party today. The grand opening of the long awaited opening of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in the Greenwood area of downtown Tulsa. The Park features a 25 foot tall memorial tower that depicts the history of the African American struggle starting in Africa and continuing until today and includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tulsa","category-tulsa-race-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}