{"id":1187186,"date":"2022-12-15T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1187186"},"modified":"2022-12-16T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:59:09","slug":"community-celebrations-planned-in-longview-for-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1187186","title":{"rendered":"Community celebrations planned in Longview for Martin Luther King Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/mlk-175x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"104\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1187194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/mlk-175x104.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/mlk.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; Community organizers and the City of Longview will host a variety of events from Friday, Jan. 13, to Monday, Jan. 16, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.\u00c2\u00a0Celebrations will kick off with an opening reception and jazz concert featuring Mack Guice and Low D starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 13, at the Longview Community Center.  A parade will be held on Saturday, Jan. 14, followed by a community festival. Saturday will also include a Humanitarian Award Celebration. On Monday, Jan. 16, residents are invited to participate at 11 a.m. in a march from Broughton Park to Mt. Olive Baptist Church, where officials say a Memorial Service will be held at noon honoring Dr. King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legacy of social justice. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longviewtexas.gov\/civicalerts.aspx?AID=4929\">here<\/a> for all the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Community organizers and the City of Longview will host a variety of events from Friday, Jan. 13, to Monday, Jan. 16, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.\u00c2\u00a0Celebrations will kick off with an opening reception and jazz concert featuring Mack Guice and Low D starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 13, at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1187186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Community celebrations planned in Longview for Martin Luther King Jr. Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1187197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/mlk-175x104.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Community celebrations planned in Longview for Martin Luther King Jr. Day","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 02:49:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/mlk-175x104.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Community celebrations planned in Longview for Martin Luther King Jr. Day","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192203,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187186\/revisions\/1192203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}