{"id":3279,"date":"2026-03-29T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:44:32","slug":"no-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"No Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not make Saturday&#8217;s protest due to a last minute scheduling conflict. We even bought a professional looking sign! But I was there in spirit. An estimated 8 million people showed up! God bless this movement and the good people who support it. America is a secular nation and a democracy. Our forefathers rejected tyranny, whether by kings or religion. No oligarchy! No theocracy! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/live\/no-kings-protests-live-updates-more-than-8-million-turned-out-across-all-50-states-organizers-say-135920011.html\"> &#8216;No Kings&#8217; protests live updates: More than 8 million turned out across all 50 states, organizers say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Witness St. Paul, Minnesota where an estimate 200,000 people showed up!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rd2jaXQOW1k?si=EilspCiEjNSkJSyK\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not make Saturday&#8217;s protest due to a last minute scheduling conflict. We even bought a professional looking sign! But I was there in spirit. An estimated 8 million people showed up! God bless this movement and the good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-ethics-and-logic","category-politics-and-society"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}