{"id":295580,"date":"2017-02-19T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T09:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protesters-hold-mock-funeral-for-american-presidency\/"},"modified":"2017-02-19T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T09:18:05","slug":"protesters-hold-mock-funeral-for-american-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protesters-hold-mock-funeral-for-american-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters hold mock funeral for &#039;American Presidency&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Protesters have staged a mock funeral procession in New York to mourn the death\u00a0of the \u201cAmerican Presidency\u201d under President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of demonstrators, dressed in black mourning clothes, took part in a rally Saturday at Manhattan&#8217;s Washington Square Park around a black casket that symbolically contained &#8220;The American Presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The protest came ahead of the President&#8217;s Day, a federal holiday held on the third Monday of February each year to honor the nation\u2019s presidents.<\/p>\n<p>The dates for the \u201cbirth and death\u201d of the American presidency were printed on the casket as April 30, 1789, when George Washington took office as the first president of the United States, and January 20, 2017, when Trump was inaugurated.<\/p>\n<p>Many protesters were dressed as historical US presidents including Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170219\/4dfa29ff-4e19-4863-8a4a-fbd71e104fb4.jpg\"\/><figcaption>People carry a mock casket during a mock funeral for \u201cthe American Presidency\u201d in Manhattan, New York, February 18, 2017. (Photo by&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/19\/511165\/Activists-hold-funeral-for-American-Presidency\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have staged a mock funeral procession in New York to mourn the death\u00a0of the \u201cAmerican Presidency\u201d under President Donald Trump. Hundreds of demonstrators, dressed in black mourning clothes, took part in a rally Saturday at Manhattan&#8217;s Washington Square Park around a black casket that symbolically contained &#8220;The American Presidency.&#8221; The protest came ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295580","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\/295580","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=295580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}