{"id":9118,"date":"2011-10-18T08:53:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T15:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2011-10-18T08:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T15:53:57","slug":"scenes-from-the-occupation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/10\/18\/scenes-from-the-occupation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"scenes from the occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 guys I once heard debating Nader versus Gore last year, who occasionally go at it on items of liberal politics and the usefulness of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>The Nader supporter:\u00c2\u00a0 What do you think of &#8220;Occupy&#8221;?<br \/>\nThe Gore supporter:\u00c2\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s great.\u00c2\u00a0 And I saw on Fox 12, of all places, a respectable listen from the people there.<\/p>\n<p>I have not had a chance to peak into talk radio.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday at Pioneer Square we had an odd confluence of things.\u00c2\u00a0 Some Vietnamese protesting China, alongside some people activated against Genetically modified food &#8212; who have been promoting this for a while, alongside &#8220;End the Afghan War&#8221; alongside &#8220;Wake Up America&#8221;, a couple of &#8220;End the Fed&#8221; signs, alongside someone wearing a Ben Franklin costume.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the best organized demonstration we&#8217;ve had for a long time.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s college kids&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s who was involved in them in the 60s and 70s.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8216;Cause they have more at stake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the question continues: when this slides away, blurs into the scene at Pioneer Square&#8230; then what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 guys I once heard debating Nader versus Gore last year, who occasionally go at it on items of liberal politics and the usefulness of the Democratic Party. The Nader supporter:\u00c2\u00a0 What do you think of &#8220;Occupy&#8221;? The Gore supporter:\u00c2\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s great.\u00c2\u00a0 And I saw on Fox 12, of all places, a respectable [&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-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","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=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9119,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions\/9119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}