{"id":66838,"date":"2011-10-06T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T13:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/66838\/bring-occupiers\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T09:45:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T13:45:33","slug":"bring-occupiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/66838\/bring-occupiers\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Bring the Occupiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/occupyseattle.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/logo\/public\/logo_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"120\" \/>Last night, by order of our mayor, the police swept into Westlake park in Downtown Seattle where the \u201cOccupy Seattle\u201d protest is going strong in support of the Occupy Wall Street in NYC.  Thirty people were arrested in a move to enforce our no camping laws. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">I thought yesterday I would visit these guys today, and maybe help out by bringing them some needed supplies.  Wasn\u2019t sure what might be a good choice though\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">30 Sausage McMuffin with Egg sandwiches?\u2026 umm, no, too corporate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">A couple cases of bottled water?\u2026 nope.  Bottled water is so bad for the environment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">A couple boxes of Starbuck\u2019s coffee?  Nah, see corporate thing above.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">A big platter of homemade tofu and organic tomato tortilla wraps?\u2026 I don\u2019t have time.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">Aww, man, this politically-correct generosity stuff is HARD!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">Then I checked their website this morning and read about the arrests and the clearing of the tents.  Occupy Seattle is still going strong!  They stayed in the park last night without tents\u2026 and it poured rain all night last night. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">I\u2019m on my way to the local green, mom-and-pop, socially responsible dollar store this morning to pick up a couple bags of these\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/image\/FW4T0ZKFLLZV50Z\/Find-some-socks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">See you tonight with the video. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, by order of our mayor, the police swept into Westlake park in Downtown Seattle where the \u201cOccupy Seattle\u201d protest is going strong in support of the Occupy Wall Street in NYC. Thirty people were arrested in a move to enforce our no camping laws. I thought yesterday I would visit these guys today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,1428],"tags":[81,4330,2473,1538],"class_list":["post-66838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-people","category-politics-2","tag-joko","tag-occupy","tag-protest","tag-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}