{"id":17289,"date":"2017-01-15T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T06:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=17289"},"modified":"2017-01-16T00:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T07:10:41","slug":"ashlands-28th-annual-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2017\/01\/ashlands-28th-annual-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashland&#8217;s 28th annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17291\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13J_5150-RAW-mlk-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-Christina-Acosta-Robinson.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17291\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13J_5150-RAW-mlk-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-Christina-Acosta-Robinson-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"mlk martin luther king jr celebration Christina Acosta Robinson\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13J_5150-RAW-mlk-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-Christina-Acosta-Robinson-800x584.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13J_5150-RAW-mlk-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-Christina-Acosta-Robinson-250x183.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13J_5150-RAW-mlk-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-Christina-Acosta-Robinson-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13J_5150-RAW-mlk-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-Christina-Acosta-Robinson.jpg 1795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Acosta Robinson performed at the 2013 event<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@AshlandMLKDay<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s celebration will take place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday, January 16). The location will be the same as prior years, the Historic Ashland Armory @ 208 Oak Street. The doors will open at 11:30, but you will need to arrive before then for a decent chance at a seat as the armory always fills up. People are encouraged to bring nonperishable food items to donate to the Ashland Emergency Food Bank. Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>A live simulcast will take place at the Varisty Theatre on East Main Street for those who can&#8217;t get into the armory.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from prior years can be found <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/tag\/ashland-martin-luther-king-jr-holiday-celebration\/>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@AshlandMLKDay This year&#8217;s celebration will take place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday, January 16). The location will be the same as prior years, the Historic Ashland Armory @ 208 Oak Street. The doors will open at 11:30, but you will need to arrive before then for a decent chance at a seat as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17296,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17289\/revisions\/17296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}