{"id":14661,"date":"2015-05-09T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T00:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14661"},"modified":"2015-05-09T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T00:42:49","slug":"the-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/05\/09\/the-demonstrators\/","title":{"rendered":"the demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I assume it had something to do with the appearance of Obama, a conservative counter-demonstration of some kind, but there was a giant convoy of pickup trucks each adorned with usually two but sometimes just one American flag driving into a central location.<\/p>\n<p>This does present the interesting facet where, when there&#8217;s a Republican President coming to town you can pretty well spot the demonstrators as being on the &#8220;left&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 A Democrat &#8212; particularly one right here right now pursuing a neo-liberal agenda &#8212; will get left, further left, and right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/05\/08\/15f55cb8-141e-46ba-8850-bea2d99c7246\/thumbnail\/620x350\/239ca115c448110d30d122a86e98ebe1\/oregontppobamaprotest.jpg\">Left<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static1.demotix.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/a_scale_large\/7500-5\/photos\/1431108883-president-barack-obama-visits-portland_7557485.jpg\">Who knows<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m back to the question &#8212; who or what were those flag adorned pickup trucks heading toward?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I assume it had something to do with the appearance of Obama, a conservative counter-demonstration of some kind, but there was a giant convoy of pickup trucks each adorned with usually two but sometimes just one American flag driving into a central location. This does present the interesting facet where, when there&#8217;s a Republican President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14662,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions\/14662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}