{"id":383,"date":"2004-08-31T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/a-lot-of-protesters\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T18:26:01","slug":"a-lot-of-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/a-lot-of-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"A LOT of Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Christian Science Monitor Blog | Notebook: At the Conventions Archive August, \n\n2004\" href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.csmonitor.com\/at_the_conventions\/2004\/08\/index.html#a0002066670\">Christian Science Monitor Blog | Notebook: At <\/p>\n<p>the Conventions Archive August, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many is &#8216;a lot&#8217;?<br \/>\nBy Tom Regan<\/p>\n<p>When I turned on the TV this morning to catch the <\/p>\n<p>news, I confess I was a bit stunned when I heard the &#8220;official count&#8221; of Sunday&#8217;s march in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The local CBS station was <\/p>\n<p>quoting police officials and the Associated Press, who said that around 110,000 people were a part of the process that streamed past <\/p>\n<p>Madison Square Gardens for four and one-half hours.<\/p>\n<p>What! I&#8217;m sorry, but that figure is way, way, way too small. I&#8217;ve seen several <\/p>\n<p>large marches in Washington, where the official count was 250,000 or more and this march was every bit the equal of those earlier <\/p>\n<p>demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>So I asked a few of the people covering the convention here in New York their thoughts on the size of the rowd. To a <\/p>\n<p>person, they scoffed at the lower figure. Monitor photographer Andy Nelson, who was in the thick of the crowd, said it was easily <\/p>\n<p>200,000. One police officer outside the hall said he has heard as many as 400,000.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers put the total at half a million. Well, <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure of that figure either. But I will tell you one thing &#8212; it was A LOT of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Science Monitor Blog | Notebook: At the Conventions Archive August, 2004 How many is &#8216;a lot&#8217;? By Tom Regan When I turned on the TV this morning to catch the news, I confess I was a bit stunned when I heard the &#8220;official count&#8221; of Sunday&#8217;s march in New York. The local CBS station &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/a-lot-of-protesters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A LOT of Protesters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}