{"id":30577,"date":"2012-06-30T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30577"},"modified":"2012-08-09T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:22:23","slug":"return-of-occupy-to-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30577","title":{"rendered":"Return of Occupy to DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radar sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/theyre-baaaaack-occupiers-retake-mcpherson-square\/2012\/06\/28\/gJQAcd7d9V_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> which reports that they have risen and they&#8217;re back to destroy McPherson Square weeks after they were removed and the damage they did was repaired at a more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/occupy-dc-vacating-mcpherson-square-goodbye-ceremony-planned\/2012\/06\/12\/gJQAN6TYXV_story.html\">$8000 price tag<\/a> to the tax payers;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Protester Nancy Munoz, of the District, said that they had returned to the park for an ongoing protest and handed out pamphlets that said, \u201cAction: Restoring McPherson Square The Occupation Will Not Move!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to stay here and educate the public about capitalism, exploitation and, most of all, the importance of reclaiming public space,\u201d Munoz said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, because the Occupation worked so well last year, right? <\/p>\n<p>It seems that DC residents of the K Street area aren&#8217;t all that pleased that the zombie-piers are back;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Across the street, staff members at Georgia Brown\u2019s restaurant \u2014 who had endured weeks of noise, rats and crowds during the winter protest \u2014 watched the goings-on from the restaurant\u2019s terrace with barely disguised dismay. \u201cThey\u2019re reoccupying!\u201d one woman said frantically, into her cellphone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess winning hearts and minds isn&#8217;t on their agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radar sends us a link from the Washington Post which reports that they have risen and &hellip; <a title=\"Return of Occupy to DC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30577\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Return of Occupy to DC<\/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":[131,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies","category-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30577","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=30577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}