{"id":30675,"date":"2012-07-08T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30675"},"modified":"2012-07-08T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T15:02:17","slug":"the-maroon-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30675","title":{"rendered":"The Maroon Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Maroon-Wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-30676\" title=\"The Maroon Wall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Maroon-Wall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Maroon-Wall-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Maroon-Wall-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ROS sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/katienotopoulos\/texas-am-students-block-westboro-baptist-prot\">Buzzfeed<\/a> which posts pictures of &#8220;The Maroon Wall&#8221; &#8211; a human chain of Texas Aggie students formed to prevent Westboro protester from interrupting the funeral of LTC Roy Tisdale, who was killed at Fort Bragg a few weeks back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/texas-aggies-form-protective-maroon-wall-at-funeral-of-lt-col-roy-tisdale\">The Examiner<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of more than 600 Aggies formed a \u201cMaroon Wall,\u201d as Texas Aggies surrounded the church Thursday, linked arm-in-arm, united to preserve the sanctity of a funeral for a fallen family member.<\/p>\n<p>Word of the planned showing of Aggie support may well have landed square in the face of the Westboro would-be protestors. \u201cMaroon Wall\u201d co-organizer Ryan Slezia said Thursday night, \u201cas of now, I can confirm zero (Westboro protestors) actually showed up at the church or burial site.\u201d This is a substantive victory against the Westboro protestors, who have \u201cconducted over 30,000 pickets, in all 50 states, in over 500 cities and towns,\u201d spending an estimated $250,000 per year on picketing&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s one thing that we can all agree upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to Buzzfeed which posts pictures of &#8220;The Maroon Wall&#8221; &#8211; a &hellip; <a title=\"The Maroon Wall\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30675\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Maroon Wall<\/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":[87,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-whackos","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30675","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=30675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}