{"id":59033,"date":"2020-01-19T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T03:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59033"},"modified":"2020-01-19T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T03:16:56","slug":"women-march-against-trump-in-washington-as-election-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59033","title":{"rendered":"Women march against Trump in Washington as election looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/scd.en.rfi.fr\/sites\/english.filesrfi\/images\/afp\/f3b4b50e3cabc8b31104af6c7d9147ba900624f5.jpg\" alt=\"Women march in Washington against Donald Trump at the start of election year in the US\"\/><figcaption>Women march in Washington against Donald Trump <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Thousands of women marched through Washington on Saturday at a now-annual event opposing US President Donald Trump, striking a defiant note despite falling attendance numbers.<br><br>Many protesters said they were horrified at the prospect of Trump\u2019s winning four more years of power in November\u2019s presidential election.<br><br>In 2017, the day after Trump\u2019s inauguration, more than three million people gathered nationwide, but numbers have since declined each year.<br><br>A few thousand protesters gathered in Washington on Saturday, with other small events in New York and elsewhere.<br><br>Kim Elliott, a 40-year-old Washington resident, carried a placard reading, \u201cI am even more outraged than I was three years ago.\u201d<br><br>\u201cWe all knew that Trump was going to be horrible, and he has been even more horrible than we realize\u201d she said, standing next to her seven-year-old daughter who was participating enthusiastically in her first women\u2019s march.<br><br>They gathered despite freezing temperatures and light snowflakes. Many in the crowd wore pink hats in a symbol opposing Trump\u2019s demeaning comments about women.<br><br>Among the placards were signs reading: \u201cI\u2019ve seen smarter cabinets at IKEA,\u201d and \u201cA woman\u2019s place is in the House\u2026 and in the Senate.\u201d<br><br>From the stage, organizers hailed the protesters for their \u201ccommitment, zeal, sass and tenacity\u201d to fight on against Trump. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Thousands of women marched through Washington on Saturday at a now-annual event opposing US President Donald Trump, striking a defiant note despite falling attendance numbers. Many protesters said they were horrified at the prospect of Trump\u2019s winning four more years of power in November\u2019s presidential election. In 2017, the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}