{"id":647,"date":"2011-10-11T05:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=647"},"modified":"2011-10-11T05:33:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T09:33:19","slug":"boston-police-throw-american-flag-to-ground-arrest-veterans-trash-property-to-protect-%e2%80%98green-space%e2%80%99-from-99-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/boston-police-throw-american-flag-to-ground-arrest-veterans-trash-property-to-protect-%e2%80%98green-space%e2%80%99-from-99-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Police Throw American Flag To Ground, Arrest Veterans, Trash Property To Protect \u2018Green Space\u2019 From 99 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the largest mass arrests in recent Boston history, the Boston Police Department cleared a park of activists with the 99 Percent Movement in the early hours of Tuesday morning, dismantling and destroying tents that had been set up on Monday. Startling footage shot by an onlooker shows members of Veterans for Peace, an organization of U.S. military veterans who oppose war, being arrested by members of the Boston Police Department, their flags \u2014 including the American flag \u2014 being thrown to the ground:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iu63e7QD_5k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/special\/2011\/10\/11\/340186\/boston-police-throw-american-flag-to-ground-arrest-veterans-trash-property-to-protect-green-space-from-99-percent\/\">Boston Police Throw American Flag To Ground, Arrest Veterans, Trash Property To Protect \u2018Green Space\u2019 From 99 Percent | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the largest mass arrests in recent Boston history, the Boston Police Department cleared a park of activists with the 99 Percent Movement in the early hours of Tuesday morning, dismantling and destroying tents that had been set up on Monday. Startling footage shot by an onlooker shows members of Veterans for Peace,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[350,393,256,392,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}