{"id":350156,"date":"2018-02-28T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T08:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-colorado-students-stage-walkout-to-protest-guns\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T08:05:12","slug":"presstv-colorado-students-stage-walkout-to-protest-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-colorado-students-stage-walkout-to-protest-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Colorado students stage walkout to protest guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Students in the US state of Colorado walk out of their classes to protest the country\u2019s gun laws two weeks after 17 people were shot to death at\u00a0a Florida high school.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of students from all five Poudre district high schools in Fort Collins participated in the walkout on Tuesday afternoon and marched to Old Town Square to congregate for an organized protest.<\/p>\n<p>Some were chanting, \u201cThis is what democracy looks like,\u201d while others were carrying signs that read; \u201cIt\u2019s not my job to know where to hide\u201d and &#8220;I want to worry about grades, not guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On February\u00a014, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people and injuring 14 others.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, a former student who was said to be 19 years old, quietly surrendered to police after opening fire with an assault-style rifle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened in Florida could happen anywhere,\u201d Misty Hirsch, a student at Senior Liberty High School, said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180228\/3e1a8f7e-e335-409e-851a-f1bf090f7469.jpg\" width=\"550\"\/><figcaption>Students&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/28\/553865\/US-gun-law-Florida-shooting-donald-trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the US state of Colorado walk out of their classes to protest the country\u2019s gun laws two weeks after 17 people were shot to death at\u00a0a Florida high school. Hundreds of students from all five Poudre district high schools in Fort Collins participated in the walkout on Tuesday afternoon and marched to Old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350156","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\/350156","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=350156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}