{"id":6556,"date":"2020-06-19T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2020-06-19T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T00:45:09","slug":"juneteenth-now-a-state-holiday-in-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/?p=6556","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth now a state holiday in VA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/juneteenth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharrell_in_va_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharrell_in_va_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharrell_in_va_500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pharrell_in_va_500-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Pharrell lobbied Governor Northam of his home state of Virginia to make Juneteenth a paid state holiday.  <br>\u201cThis year, Juneteenth will look like no Juneteenth before. People of all ages and races, our advocates and allies as well, will together in solidarity for black people like never before \u2026 It\u2019s already happening in the streets,\u201d Williams said of protesters fighting for racial justice. \u201cAnd we love you for that. I\u2019m grateful for those that are standing with us. By the way those are Americans in the streets, not just people who look like me, those are Americans, of all types.\u201d &#8211; Pharrell<br>Hopefully other states and the federal government will follow.  To learn more about Juneteenth, please <a href=\"http:\/\/juneteenth.com\/\">click here<\/a>.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}