{"id":18093,"date":"2010-03-21T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18093"},"modified":"2010-03-21T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T20:08:11","slug":"answer-protests-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18093","title":{"rendered":"ANSWER protests everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Code Red and Code Pink 010 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4448309571\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2697\/4448309571_20f4097ac9.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red and Code Pink 010\" width=\"500\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere was a lot going on in DC yesterday, so I had to park the truck (illegally) and dismount to the Blogger Urban Reconnaissance vehicle to cover all of the evnts. The first place I went was to the Vietnam Wall where I ran into a small group of Gathering of Eagles folks. I rode up to two guys standing there with flags and asked &#8220;Where are the hippies&#8221;. Turns out that one of those guys was Toothless <del datetime=\"2010-03-21T20:04:58+00:00\">Dog<\/del> Dawg (who , by the way, is a complete phony &#8211; he has all of his teeth. I made him show me.)<\/p>\n<p>Then I shot over to Lafayette Park. It was just before noon, and I only saw a few hundred people. This is from my wide angle lensof the whole crowd;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Code Red and Code Pink 010 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4449071082\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4027\/4449071082_016024e645.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red and Code Pink 010\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone on the loud speaker claimed there were thousands &#8220;on their way&#8221;, but since it was supposed to start at noon, their numbers were pretty anemic. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/20\/AR2010032002876.html?hpid=topnews\">Washington Post<\/a> reports this morning that there were &#8220;thousands&#8221; &#8211; I didn&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Code Red and Code Pink 007 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4448290847\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4016\/4448290847_182e45e401.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red and Code Pink 007\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Code Red and Code Pink 005 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4448287527\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2682\/4448287527_ec984d97aa.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red and Code Pink 005\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering what those signs say, I blew up the photo for you;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Code Red and Code Pink 005a by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4450182719\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4024\/4450182719_7cd574b771_o.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red and Code Pink 005a\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think these are the &#8220;Peace Grannies&#8221; preparing to regale the crowd with some of their unique octogenarian rap song stylings.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Code Red and Code Pink 008 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4449067808\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4449067808_2712ce96c4.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red and Code Pink 008\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you look closely at the pictures, you&#8217;ll see that many of the people in the picture are tourists spilling over from the White House;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Code Red and Code Pink 012 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4448299123\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4065\/4448299123_b2baaa8f02.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red and Code Pink 012\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only thing I saw worth bandwidth was this hoola-hoop chic;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Code Red and Code Pink 003 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4448284185\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4448284185_5df7545685.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red and Code Pink 003\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot going on in DC yesterday, so I had to park the truck &hellip; <a title=\"ANSWER protests everything\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18093\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ANSWER protests everything<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-protestsrallies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}