{"id":5615,"date":"2019-11-30T13:53:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2019-12-02T22:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T03:18:29","slug":"celebrate-modjeska-monteith-simkins-at-birthday-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/30\/celebrate-modjeska-monteith-simkins-at-birthday-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Modjeska Monteith Simkins at 10th annual birthday party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/25010447028_d505d299c6_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/25010447028_d505d299c6_b.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/25010447028_d505d299c6_b-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/25010447028_d505d299c6_b-768x907.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a> invites you to join us on Thursday, Dec. 5, for our 10th annual birthday party to honor the life and legacy of human rights icon Modjeska Monteith Simkins.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drop-in at our new HQ \u2014 1340 Elmwood Ave., downtown Columbia \u2014 begins at 5:30 with cake and port (Modjeska&#8217;s favorite) and live music by sax master <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kencheeks.com\/kens-bio\">Ken Cheeks<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 6:30, our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historiccolumbia.org\/\">Historic Columbia<\/a> will lead a tour of the newly renovated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historiccolumbia.org\/tours\/house-tours\/modjeska-monteith-simkins-house\">Modjeska Simkins House<\/a> next door. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening will conclude with testimonials from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/modjeskaschool\/\">Modjeska Simkins School<\/a> graduates. Children are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to know more about Ms. Simkins? Download the Network&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/modjeskaschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ModjeskaBook2018web.pdf\">free booklet<\/a> about her remarkable life, or pick up a copy at the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Share <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2433815456728546\/\">Facebook event<\/a> with friends and family online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/8247939994_df70e1c851_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/8247939994_df70e1c851_o.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/8247939994_df70e1c851_o-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/8247939994_df70e1c851_o-428x300.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SC Progressive Network invites you to join us on Thursday, Dec. 5, for our 10th annual birthday party to honor the life and legacy of human rights icon Modjeska Monteith Simkins. The drop-in at our new HQ \u2014 1340 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/30\/celebrate-modjeska-monteith-simkins-at-birthday-bash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5622,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}