{"id":16537,"date":"2017-05-02T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16537"},"modified":"2017-05-02T18:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:49:43","slug":"small-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/05\/02\/small-details\/","title":{"rendered":"small details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/news\/big-may-day-marches-rallies-planned-in-seattle-portland\/\">Hm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Across the street, friends Josh Elms and Ryan Falck sported red scarves and carried small Soviet flags as they prepared to march in support of workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know&#8230; some protesters will be more radical than others, but&#8230; Here&#8217;s to The Soviet America?<br \/>\nI suppose it precludes bringing out the Mao Posters.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically enough, the Soviet flag might be a symbol of Russian nationalism&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozarksfirst.com\/news\/national-news\/may-day-protests-celebrations-around-the-globe_\/704503078\">and we see herein<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hundreds of thousands showed up in the Russian capital to celebrate International Workers&#8217; Day, according to state-run media. In Red Square, people waved Soviet and Russian flags, as well as banners supporting President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s United Russia party. &#8220;Decent work, wages, and life&#8221; is a common theme at the gatherings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 The Communist Party is probably useful to Putin&#8217;s managed government.<br \/>\nThe current occupant in the White House frequently cited, though I suppose recent bombings fray the point, as &#8220;Putin&#8217;s puppet&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 The protests in part a support for the occupant in the White House?<\/p>\n<p>It is a different May Day parade that happened last night than the one portrayed in the 1950s in Harvey Kurtzman&#8217;s Humbug &#8212; barricaded street, a handful of Communist troopers in an empty street marching behind sign saying &#8220;Unity&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm. Across the street, friends Josh Elms and Ryan Falck sported red scarves and carried small Soviet flags as they prepared to march in support of workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rights. Yes, I know&#8230; some protesters will be more radical than others, but&#8230; Here&#8217;s to The Soviet America? I suppose it precludes bringing out the Mao Posters. Ironically [&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-16537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537","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=16537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16540,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions\/16540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}