{"id":57214,"date":"2017-01-28T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nr_huge_diverse_crowd_marches_for_life_in_the_nations_capital\/"},"modified":"2017-01-28T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:00:56","slug":"nr_huge_diverse_crowd_marches_for_life_in_the_nations_capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57214","title":{"rendered":"(NR) Huge, Diverse Crowd Marches for Life in the Nation\u2019s Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are the pro-life generation,\u201d\u009d the crowd chanted, voices building to an overwhelming crescendo with each repetition of the line. Packed onto the National Mall across the street from the White House Friday, the revelers deafened one another with their joyful shouts, tens of thousands gathered just across the street from President Donald Trump\u2019s new home, smiling and laughing and breaking into spontaneous cheers.<\/p>\n<p>Such was the scene at the 44th annual March for Life, first held here on January 22, 1974, one year to the day after the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. In good weather and in bad \u201d\u201d given Washington\u2019s bitter Januaries, it\u2019s usually the latter \u201d\u201d crowds swarm the Mall every year to protest against the country\u2019s abortion laws and to advocate for the protection of unborn life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/444359\/march-life-anti-abortion-rally-draws-huge-diverse-crowd\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarchForLife?src=hash\">#MarchForLife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JTJXmTFca6\">pic.twitter.com\/JTJXmTFca6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; National Review (@NRO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRO\/status\/825033381796786176\">January 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are the pro-life generation,\u201d\u009d the crowd chanted, voices building to an overwhelming crescendo with each repetition of the line. Packed onto the National Mall across the street from the White House Friday, the revelers deafened one another with their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57214\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,168,104,114,96,98,129,108,95,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}