{"id":8505,"date":"2015-10-08T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2015-10-08T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:49:54","slug":"children-mob-westboro-baptist-protestors-drive-them-out-of-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/children-mob-westboro-baptist-protestors-drive-them-out-of-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Mob Westboro Baptist Protestors, Drive Them Out Of Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chanting &#8220;God Save The Queen,&#8221; a mob of angry children surrounded Westboro Baptist Protestors who had shown up to harass a school&#8217;s community who had elected a transgender homecoming queen.  The protesters were forced to get back in their care and get the hell out of Dodge. Or, in this case, Oak Park Missouri. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qqG1Ma_NCgs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From this <a href=\"http:\/\/revolution-news.com\/westboro-baptist-church-run-out-of-town-high-school-students-in-missouri\/\">Revolution News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>High School students, Church groups, anarchists, antifacists, liberals, LGBTQIA+ activists, and more came together to send the Westboro Church and their message of hate back to Topeka Kansas \u2013 and to honor Landon Patterson. The Westboro Baptist Church didn\u2019t even make it to the school.<\/p>\n<p>At a street corner, activists swooped in on them, and a group of anarchists immediately held a banner in front of the WBC to block them. Other protesters swarmed in from behind, and everyone chased the four or five members of the WBC back to their van. The police, of course, protected the WBC the whole way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chanting &#8220;God Save The Queen,&#8221; a mob of angry children surrounded Westboro Baptist Protestors who had shown up to harass a school&#8217;s community who had elected a transgender homecoming queen. The protesters were forced to get back in their care and get the hell out of Dodge. Or, in this case, Oak Park Missouri. From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/children-mob-westboro-baptist-protestors-drive-them-out-of-town\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Children Mob Westboro Baptist Protestors, Drive Them Out Of Town<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[951,590,5020,950],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/edit-25723-1442203947-2.jpg?fit=625%2C492&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2db","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}