{"id":4316,"date":"2010-07-09T02:45:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T02:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2010-07-09T02:45:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T02:45:25","slug":"riot-power-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/riot-power-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot power, contd."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As word spread throughout Oakland around 2:30 p.m. that a verdict had been reached in the Johannes Mehserle murder trial, the downtown streets suddenly flooded with workers rushing out of their workplaces to go home.<br \/>\nThe normally placid lanes were clogged, people hurried along the sidewalk, and there was an almost electric air of worried anticipation. BART trains streaming in and out of downtown were jammed, and nearby Interstates 880 and 980 filled as if it were already commute hour.<br \/>\nAt the downtown federal building, announcements were made over loudspeakers to tell everyone to go home. At many of the big businesses throughout the area, internal e-mails and other notices went out advising the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there anyone in the relevant \u201ccommunity\u201d disturbed that his fellow \u201ccommunity members\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/07\/08\/BAFL1EBKII.DTL&amp;tsp=1\">produce such an effect<\/a>\u2014only partly irrational\u2014on society?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As word spread throughout Oakland around 2:30 p.m. that a verdict had been reached in the Johannes Mehserle murder trial, the downtown streets suddenly flooded with workers rushing out of their workplaces to go home. The normally placid lanes were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/riot-power-contd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}