{"id":5627,"date":"2009-08-18T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T18:10:08","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-dr-martin-luther-king-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-dr-martin-luther-king-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Dr. Martin Luther King Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5631\" title=\"MLK-matches-V\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches-V.jpg\" alt=\"MLK-matches-V\" width=\"277\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches-V.jpg 277w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches-V-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/>\n<p>I have tons of MLK memorabilia &#8211; busts, rugs, pens, cufflinks, ashtrays &#8211; but this book of matches is one of my favorites. Comes in a matching set with Jackie Robinson, Mahalia Jackson, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Lorraine Hansberry, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Bill Pickett.<\/p>\n<p>I, thankfully, have found three sets of these over the years so have slowly struck the first MLK, \u00a9 1976 Universal Match Series 1, which is down to three matches and counting.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5633\" title=\"MLK-matches_4845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches_4845.jpg\" alt=\"MLK-matches_4845\" width=\"450\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches_4845.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches_4845-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5639\" title=\"MLK-matches_4861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches_4861.jpg\" alt=\"MLK-matches_4861\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches_4861.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/MLK-matches_4861-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have tons of MLK memorabilia &#8211; busts, rugs, pens, cufflinks, ashtrays &#8211; but this book of matches is one of my favorites. Comes in a matching set with Jackie Robinson, Mahalia Jackson, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Lorraine Hansberry, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Bill Pickett. I, thankfully, have found three sets of &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-dr-martin-luther-king-matches\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,551,107,87,193,167,81],"tags":[61,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bar-accessory","category-civil-rights","category-empowerment","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","category-products","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}