{"id":182702,"date":"2015-06-27T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/27\/hero-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2015-06-27T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:35:00","slug":"hero-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/27\/hero-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPR6s5HM0K8?rel=0\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>And the accursed flag comes down<\/i><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/keep-it-down-brittany-bree-newsome-removes-confederate-flag-after-scaling-south-1986767\">Brittany \u2018Bree\u2019 Newsome<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A woman scaled the flagpole in front of the South Carolina Statehouse Saturday morning and temporarily removed the Confederate flag that flew there. The woman was arrested by State Capitol police along with a man who had entered the grounds with her, the Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/a594b658bbad4cac86c96564164c9d99\/woman-removes-confederate-flag-front-sc-statehouse\">reported<\/a>. The flag was replaced and raised a short time later. <\/p>\n<p>The woman, who was not identified by authorities, was named on social media as Brittany \u201cBree\u201d Newsome, an activist from North Carolina. Her actions inspired the hashtag #KeepItDown, which was one of the top trending topics on Twitter in the U.S. Saturday. Later in the day, the hashtag #FreeBree was also trending in the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breenewsome.com\/#%21about\/c13dn\">BreeNewsome.com<\/a>, a site linked to a Twitter account belonging to a user with the name Bree Newsome and mentioned by numerous users in conjunction with the #KeepItDown hashtag, Newsome is an activist and graduate of New York University\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Here is hoping that this happens regularly until it comes down forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the accursed flag comes down Brittany \u2018Bree\u2019 Newsome: A woman scaled the flagpole in front of the South Carolina Statehouse Saturday morning and temporarily removed the Confederate flag that flew there. The woman was arrested by State Capitol police along with a man who had entered the grounds with her, the Associated Press reported. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1169,1011,978,1049,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-heroism","category-history","category-politics","category-protests","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182702"}],"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=182702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}