{"id":1439,"date":"2025-06-14T23:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T21:50:03","slug":"no-kings-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Kings&#8221; in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<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-1439-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arrival.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arrival.mp4\">https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arrival.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>I walked up Denny Way to Cal Anderson Park, hoping as usual to be fashionably late; but lots more people arrived over the next hour.<\/p>\n<p>I found some space under a tree while speeches were made. Others had brought signs (&#8220;No Kings &#8212; More Queens&#8221; was repeated) but my favorite was a bust of Lady Liberty with the caption &#8220;Girl . . . hold my earrings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are marchers approaching Bell Street, nearing my home (I let them find their way to Seattle Center without me).\u00a0 I like the sign with the many small fishes forming the single big fish. <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bell-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1442 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bell-1024x759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bell-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bell-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bell-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bell-1536x1138.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bell-2048x1518.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bell-624x462.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police reported the size of the crowd to be about 70,000 eventually. By the way, I didn&#8217;t see any officers either at the park or on the march down to the Center &#8212; they must not have anticipated misbehavior. They did, however, block traffic far enough away that we seldom witnessed any backup.<a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/history.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1443\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/history-950x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/history-950x1024.jpg 950w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/history-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/history-768x828.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/history-1424x1536.jpg 1424w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/history-624x673.jpg 624w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/history.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked up Denny Way to Cal Anderson Park, hoping as usual to be fashionably late; but lots more people arrived over the next hour. I found some space under a tree while speeches were made. Others had brought signs (&#8220;No Kings &#8212; More Queens&#8221; was repeated) but my favorite was a bust of Lady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}