{"id":888,"date":"2020-08-17T22:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/?page_id=888"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:22:59","slug":"multi-modal-march","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/?page_id=888","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Modal March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Lives Matter came to our neighborhood again tonight, with a well-organized protest.\u00a0 The vocal group of marchers was relatively small, but they were led by a vanguard of cyclists, and flanked by columns of automobiles.\u00a0 It appears that the cars protect the pedestrians from drivers who might want to attack them, as well as providing socially-distant protesting opportunities for motorists who are not ready to rub elbows with strangers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-888-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal1a.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal1a.mp4\">https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal1a.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The clip below shows the car-e-ography involved as the march executes a turn:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-888-2\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal3a.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal3a.mp4\">https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal3a.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Update:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Another group appeared, this time in daylight, on the 21st.\u00a0 The presence of the automobile escort may also support the argument that the police need not be so close.\u00a0 A pair of SPD police SUVs followed the march, but did not intervene in any way.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-888-3\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal7.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal7.mp4\">https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MultiModal7.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8212; Scott McKee, August 17 and 21, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Lives Matter came to our neighborhood again tonight, with a well-organized protest.\u00a0 The vocal group of marchers was relatively small, but they were led by a vanguard of cyclists, and flanked by columns of automobiles.\u00a0 It appears that the cars protect the pedestrians from drivers who might want to attack them, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":247,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-888","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888\/revisions\/909"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}