{"id":2153,"date":"2014-05-06T21:25:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2014-06-11T22:17:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T03:17:26","slug":"riots-may-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"Riots &#8211; May 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 3 weeks after the April 12 sign-on, peacefully protesting students and innocent student bystanders were murdered by troops and police at Kent State University.<br \/>\nThe same thing happened at Jackson State University.<br \/>\nGovernment officials said they deserved to be murdered since they were protesting.<br \/>\nThese events completely revitalized student protests.<br \/>\nSuddenly there were thousands (as in over 5,000) in the streets of C\u2019dale and the university; government and police officials thought the protesters should all be shot<br \/>\nas that would be cheaper than jailing them.<br \/>\nSuddenly WIDB had to have a news department,\u00a0because it didn\u2019t seem right to be playing rock jock hits and jingles when students were being shot, beaten and gassed by police and troops.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2153-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1970_05-Riots.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1970_05-Riots.mp3\">https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1970_05-Riots.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 3 weeks after the April 12 sign-on, peacefully protesting students and innocent student bystanders were murdered by troops and police at Kent State University. The same thing happened at Jackson State University. Government officials said they deserved to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/?p=2153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-files","category-widb-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}