{"id":1078,"date":"2014-12-06T23:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T04:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/conservakat\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2014-12-06T23:55:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T04:55:33","slug":"attention-ferguson-terrorizing-kids-is-not-the-way-to-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/attention-ferguson-terrorizing-kids-is-not-the-way-to-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention #Ferguson: Terrorizing Kids is not the way to protest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First a group in Seattle<a href=\"\/\/www.pennlive.com\/nation-world\/2014\/12\/war_on_christmas_being_waged_b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> terrorized a children&#8217;s choir<\/a> who were trying to sing at a tree lighting.\u00a0 The kids were up on the balcony when the protestors took it over.\u00a0 They kids were terrified and had to be rushed off to a corner.\u00a0 Most of them were crying.\u00a0 A reporter at the scene had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Children here at Westlake to perform holiday music onstage absolutely terrified as protesters surround them on stage. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ferguson?src=hash\">#ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joshua Trujillo (@joshtrujillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshtrujillo\/status\/538499894839767041\">November 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Then tonight I see this on twitter: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>The Toys R Us Carousel is stopped. Protest. NYC. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ferguson?src=hash\">#ferguson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zhsTQjWimi\">https:\/\/t.co\/zhsTQjWimi<\/a> \u2014 deray mckesson (@deray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deray\/status\/541430054006566912\">December 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There were kids in that Ferris wheel while these nuts walked around screaming.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be honest, they are lucky I wasn&#8217;t there, or God help me I might be in jail tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I get that they want to protest, I even understand that they are upset about Tamir Rice &amp; others who don&#8217;t have Christmas this year&#8230;.\u00a0 but dammit, leave the kids alone!\u00a0 There is no reason to terrorize kids to get your message across.\u00a0 NONE of this helps their cause. None.\u00a0 I&#8217;d say one day someone is going to die at one of these protests, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/man-killed-ferguson-riots-shot-set-fire-cops-article-1.2025417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it&#8217;s already happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First a group in Seattle terrorized a children&#8217;s choir who were trying to sing at a tree lighting.\u00a0 The kids were up on the balcony when the protestors took it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[213,304,365,408,438],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-is-that-racist","tag-ferguson","tag-kids","tag-nyc","tag-protests","tag-seattle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/seattletreelightingprotest-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}