{"id":177251,"date":"2019-11-12T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/12\/i-%e2%99%a5-new-york\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T00:32:00","slug":"i-%e2%99%a5-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/12\/i-%e2%99%a5-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"I \u2665 New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Also, I \u2660\ufe0f my cats, but this is not about proper care of one&#8217;s pets, this is about how the good people of the Big Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/11\/nyregion\/trump-veterans-day-parade-nyc.html\">heckled the sh%$ out of Donald Trump yesterday<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump returned to his hometown on Monday to kick off the 100th annual New York City Veterans Day Parade, his second visit to the city since he announced he was making Florida his primary home.<\/p>\n<p>In an 18-minute speech, Mr. Trump expressed his gratitude to American veterans, but also used his remarks to pay tribute to the city, where he remains deeply unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the earliest days of our nation, New York has exemplified the American spirit and has been at the heart of our nation\u2019s story of daring and defiance,\u201d Mr. Trump said. <\/p>\n<p>Defiance, in particular, was on display throughout Mr. Trump\u2019s speech, at Madison Square Park in Manhattan, just two miles down Fifth Avenue from Trump Tower, which had been Mr. Trump\u2019s primary residence since 1983, until he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/31\/us\/politics\/trump-new-york-florida-primary-residence.html?module=inline\">filed to switch it to Florida<\/a> in late September.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the president arrived, protesters had gathered along the streets, a number of them from an anti-Trump group, Rise and Resist. They carried signs calling for Mr. Trump\u2019s impeachment and repeatedly shouted, \u201cShame!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In the windows of a nearby glass tower overlooking the dais where Mr. Trump spoke, large signs placed in the windows spelled the word \u201cimpeach.\u201d A few floors higher, letters spelling \u201cconvict\u201d were placed in another set of windows.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But raucous boos and chants jeering Mr. Trump could also be heard throughout the president\u2019s remarks. A chorus of people shouted \u201clock him up!\u201d and \u201ctraitor\u201d and blew whistles as he spoke, causing some veterans to complain that the din was drowning out the president\u2019s speech. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Drowning him out is kind of the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, I \u2660\ufe0f my cats, but this is not about proper care of one&#8217;s pets, this is about how the good people of the Big Apple heckled the sh%$ out of Donald Trump yesterday: President Trump returned to his hometown on Monday to kick off the 100th annual New York City Veterans Day Parade, his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,590,486],"class_list":["post-177251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-protests","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}