{"id":291087,"date":"2017-01-21T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T14:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thousands-descend-on-washington-to-protest-trump-presidency\/"},"modified":"2017-01-21T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T14:28:03","slug":"thousands-descend-on-washington-to-protest-trump-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thousands-descend-on-washington-to-protest-trump-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands descend on Washington to protest Trump presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of thousands of people from across the United States are descending on Washington to voice their anger and anxiety over Donald Trump\u2019s presidency a day after he took the oath of office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s March on Washington, which organizers say could attract a quarter of a million people on Saturday, seeks to raise awareness of women&#8217;s rights and other civil rights, that many Americans fear could be under threat by the new president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump angered many at home and abroad by repeatedly making disparaging remarks about women, Muslims and immigrants during his bombastic presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s March, which began with a Facebook call by a Hawaiian grandmother in the aftermath of Trump\u2019s election victory in November, is predicted to become one of the largest political demonstrations ever seen in the US capital.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said demonstrators are going to Washington on their own, using buses and trains from distant locations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170121\/ce18cf6c-eeaf-49bb-bd39-f656e1046eb1.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Protesters&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/21\/507143\/US-Women-March-Washington-Donald-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of people from across the United States are descending on Washington to voice their anger and anxiety over Donald Trump\u2019s presidency a day after he took the oath of office. The Women\u2019s March on Washington, which organizers say could attract a quarter of a million people on Saturday, seeks to raise awareness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}