{"id":94447,"date":"2025-12-24T02:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:52:12","slug":"welcome-to-florida-james-weldon-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94447\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Florida: James Weldon Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                James Weldon Johnson<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1. In the upcoming legislative session, Florida politicians will be considering a bill which would give the biggest Florida land developers and land developments the least oversight and opportunity for public input. 2. This week&#8217;s episode focuses on who Craig considers to be the ultimate Florida man: James Weldon Johnson. Johnson wrote the lyrics to &#8220;Lift Every Voice and Sing,&#8221; the Black National Anthem. Joining us to discuss Johnson is Florida State College of Jacksonville English professor, author and historian Tim Gilmore.                <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110449\" class=\"wp-image-110449 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/James-Weldon-Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"500\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-110449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Portrait Gallery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Weldon Johnson 1. In the upcoming legislative session, Florida politicians will be considering a bill which would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-94447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}