{"id":576,"date":"2005-08-17T18:01:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T01:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=576"},"modified":"2005-08-17T18:01:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T01:01:54","slug":"why-dont-you-call-it-a-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/08\/17\/why-dont-you-call-it-a-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don’t you call it a protest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>At some point before noon, a handful of youngsters — late teens, early twenties — stand in Pioneer Square, in a line (or maybe two), with gray duct tape over their mouths with the word “Life” on it. A couple of members stand by the way-side, without the duct tape — wearing a badge that suggests that they’d answer any questions you have.<\/p>\n

“What precisely are you protesting?”
\n“It’s not a protest. It’s a prayer meeting to create a Culture of Life and bring attention to the issue of Abortion.”
\n“Ok. Thank you very much.”<\/p>\n

I used the word “precisely” because I imagined they might have a specific piece of legislation somewhere (or even a Supreme Court nominee somewhere) that they wanted to advocate for. I suppose if there were, you can argure against it being a “protest”. As it is, they have duct tape over their mouths with the word “Life” on it — a statement, I guess symbolizing how the aborted fetuses are being deprived of their right (and ability?) to speak.<\/p>\n

Why can’t the guy call it a protest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some point before noon, a handful of youngsters — late teens, early twenties — stand in Pioneer Square, in a line (or maybe two), with gray duct tape over their mouths with the word “Life” on it. A couple of members stand by the way-side, without the duct tape — wearing a badge that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}