{"id":177,"date":"2003-01-12T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2003-01-12T10:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/la_march\/"},"modified":"2003-01-12T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2003-01-12T10:57:47","slug":"la_march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/la_march\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good to see the numbers game is alive and well. I mean of course, estimating the number of marchers at a protest rally.<br \/>\nThe BBC are saying <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/2650299.stm\">5,000-20,000<\/a>, while CNN are saying 2,000. <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20030111_1704.html\">Associated Press<\/a> (via ABC) has the police putting numbers at 3,000 with organisers saying 20,000, and finally the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-protest12jan12,0,1688981.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines\">LA Times<\/a> has police saying 5,000-7,000 with organisers saying 15,000.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not really important exactly how many people went on a march, but there is a political resonance to crowd numbers. You&#8217;d expect 2,000 people on a march for a small issue, so if you quote that as the crowd number, people think this is a small issue.<br \/>\nLondon has a demo on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopwar.org.uk\/\">February 15<\/a>. If it&#8217;s organised properly, there&#8217;ll be a lot of people on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to see the numbers game is alive and well. I mean of course, estimating the number of marchers at a protest rally. The BBC are saying 5,000-20,000, while CNN are saying 2,000. Associated Press (via ABC) has the police putting numbers at 3,000 with organisers saying 20,000, and finally the LA Times has police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}