{"id":15911,"date":"2016-10-06T12:54:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15911"},"modified":"2016-10-06T12:54:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:54:39","slug":"no-ones-keeping-up-with-the-bundys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/10\/06\/no-ones-keeping-up-with-the-bundys\/","title":{"rendered":"no one&#8217;s keeping up with the Bundys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"255\" data-total-count=\"682\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/03\/us\/bundy-brothers-who-sought-to-rally-a-nation-draw-scant-support-at-trial.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FOregon&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=us&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=2&amp;pgtype=collection\">Disappointing to be a protester supporting the cause of the Bundys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"276\" data-total-count=\"958\"><em>Outside the downtown courthouse where the brothers, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and five others are on trial for conspiracy, their supporters have dwindled to a handful of self-described patriots carrying pocket Constitutions and lamenting their shrunken ranks.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had hoped there would be hundreds of people here, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jason Patrick, 44, tugging on a cigarette not far from a Black Lives Matter rally that had more than 100 participants. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you come to the most pressing court case of your time?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"276\" data-total-count=\"958\">I think I have an answer.<br \/>\nAttention is fleeing.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s 24 hours a day.\u00c2\u00a0 One is limited in the purview of causes championing, and movements you pull into.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s one thing at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"276\" data-total-count=\"958\">The supporters are being diverted into electoral politics, championing the cause of Presidential candidate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"276\" data-total-count=\"958\">The &#8220;Bundy&#8221; story was all over the prisonplanet website when it was a&#8217;happening.\u00c2\u00a0 Now&#8230; it&#8217;s commenced into Trump-land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disappointing to be a protester supporting the cause of the Bundys. Outside the downtown courthouse where the brothers, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and five others are on trial for conspiracy, their supporters have dwindled to a handful of self-described patriots carrying pocket Constitutions and lamenting their shrunken ranks. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had hoped there would be hundreds [&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-15911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15911","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=15911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15913,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15911\/revisions\/15913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}