{"id":8625,"date":"2011-10-08T20:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T01:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2017-11-12T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T21:35:07","slug":"a-salute-to-wall-street-occupiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/a-salute-to-wall-street-occupiers\/","title":{"rendered":"A salute! To Wall Street Occupiers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8627\" title=\"Occupy_Wall_Street\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Occupy_Wall_Street.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>New York, USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hats off to the ordinary citizens, 20-somethings, seniors, union workers, off-duty policemen, environmentalists, (and increasingly, journalists)\u2014employed and unemployed\u2014who are either camping out on Wall Street or visiting the protestors this weekend. I predict a steadily growing movement that will spread in both energy and girth, and that will ultimately help to create long-overdue change in the once-powerful United States of America (which much of the world still looks to for leadership). <em>Keep it peaceful, keep it real\u2014stay the course, good people!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>The time to overthrow the corporate <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kleptocracy\" target=\"_blank\">kleptocracy<\/a><\/span> that has bedeviled your land, and\u2014by &#8220;globalized&#8221; extension\u2014the rest of the world, is long overdue\u2026 take in some reportage and commentary on this exciting grass-roots action\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/uz5RxhahHK0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span> (Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Chris Hedges).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8626\" title=\"Wall_Street_Sack\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wall_Street_Sack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, USA Hats off to the ordinary citizens, 20-somethings, seniors, union workers, off-duty policemen, environmentalists, (and increasingly, journalists)\u2014employed and unemployed\u2014who are either camping out on Wall Street or visiting the protestors this weekend. I predict a steadily growing movement that will spread in both energy and girth, and that will ultimately help to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15479,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions\/15479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}