{"id":36874,"date":"2013-07-30T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T14:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36874"},"modified":"2013-07-30T07:51:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T14:51:22","slug":"wral-wearing-red-for-public-ed-thousands-crowd-legislative-protest-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/30\/wral-wearing-red-for-public-ed-thousands-crowd-legislative-protest-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAL: Wearing &#8216;red for public ed,&#8217; thousands crowd legislative protest in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh, N.C. \u2014 Thousands of North Carolina teachers and other protesters on Monday staged one of the largest of the almost-weekly demonstrations opposing Republican policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina Association of Educators brought busloads of teachers to Raleigh on Monday as the so-called &#8220;Moral Monday&#8221; protests reached the three-month mark. Thousands of red-shirt-wearing educators listened to speakers on a lawn inside the state government complex, then marched several blocks for another rally outside the antebellum state Capitol building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Educators are sick and tired of being demoralized,&#8221; NCAE President Rodney Ellis said at a news conference preceding the rally. &#8220;We&#8217;re sick and tired of being unappreciated. We&#8217;re sick and tired of being disrespected. Public educators and public schools are not failing our students, politicians are.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/-moral-monday-organizers-want-meeting-with-mccrory-plan-future-protests\/12716757\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh, N.C. \u2014 Thousands of North Carolina teachers and other protesters on Monday staged one of the largest of the almost-weekly demonstrations opposing Republican policy decisions. The North Carolina Association of Educators brought busloads of teachers to Raleigh on Monday as the so-called &#8220;Moral Monday&#8221; protests reached the three-month mark. Thousands of red-shirt-wearing educators listened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36875,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36874\/revisions\/36875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}