{"id":252,"date":"2011-02-12T14:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/koponenalaska.wordpress.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:59:40","slug":"niilo-a-alaska-aclu-40th-anniversary-liberty-awarde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Niilo an Alaska ACLU 40th Anniversary Liberty Awardee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of his having been one of the founders of ACLU of Alaska 40 years ago, and for his &#8220;important contributions in guarding Alaskans\u2019 individual liberty and civil rights,&#8221; Niilo was among 40 individual and group awardees at the 40th Anniversary Liberty Awards Gala, January 22, 2011  in Anchorage. While he wasn&#8217;t able to attend himself, friends and family attending the gala were reminded how much difference he and other champions of civil rights have made.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is an ongoing effort.  As Niilo used to say, &#8220;Onward!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heather <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of his having been one of the founders of ACLU of Alaska 40 years ago, and for his &#8220;important contributions in guarding Alaskans\u2019 individual liberty and civil rights,&#8221; Niilo was among 40 individual and group awardees at the 40th Anniversary Liberty Awards Gala, January 22, 2011 in Anchorage. While he wasn&#8217;t able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}