{"id":2244,"date":"2007-05-05T23:11:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T06:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/05\/2244\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T23:13:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T06:13:38","slug":"2244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/05\/2244\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a procession of protesters streaming across Pioneer Courthouse Square, chanting something like &#8220;Hemp NOW!  NOW Hemp!&#8221;, and singing something like &#8220;We like hemp, yes we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Standing at the corner, yelling into this mix, was a small group of Christian fundamentalists.  I think they were yelling a chant akin to &#8220;You will burn in Hell!  Jesus Saves!  Ezekial 3:17!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of this was, perhaps, par for the course.  I saw a sign that suggested it was part of the &#8220;Million Hemp March&#8221;, a joke if there ever was one considering the size of the crowd &#8212; large, I suppose, so far as these things go.  But what I couldn&#8217;t figure out for the life of me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the procession, there was what appeared to be a dragon.  Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a procession of protesters streaming across Pioneer Courthouse Square, chanting something like &#8220;Hemp NOW! NOW Hemp!&#8221;, and singing something like &#8220;We like hemp, yes we do.&#8221; Standing at the corner, yelling into this mix, was a small group of Christian fundamentalists. I think they were yelling a chant akin to &#8220;You will burn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","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=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}