{"id":186,"date":"2024-05-19T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2024-05-19T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:06:38","slug":"summer-olympic-games-mexico-city-tommie-smith-and-john-carlos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Summer Olympic Games, Mexico City &#8211; Tommie Smith and John Carlos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 12, The Summer Olympic Games open in Mexico City. The games have been boycotted by 32 African nations in protest of South Africa\u2019s participation. On the 18th Tommie Smith and John Carlos, US athletes and medalists in the 200-meter dash will further disrupt the games by performing the black power salute during the \u201cStar-Spangled Banner\u201d at their medal ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ZttN9hPvx4?si=IZ_rJSZ5hkE8b1V-\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 12, The Summer Olympic Games open in Mexico City. The games have been boycotted by 32 African nations in protest of South Africa\u2019s participation. On the 18th Tommie Smith and John Carlos, US athletes and medalists in the 200-meter dash will further disrupt the games by performing the black power salute during the \u201cStar-Spangled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}