{"id":647,"date":"2017-02-01T21:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2017-02-01T21:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:03:52","slug":"local-activist-caught-not-protesting-by-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Local activist caught not protesting by friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-648\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"298\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON &#8211; Local activist, Kyle Cole, of Windsor was caught not protesting anything this past weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Said the 24 year-old University of Windsor political science major &#8220;I was just burned out on making signs and attending marches and protests.\u00a0 So last weekend\u00a0I decided\u00a0I needed\u00a0a break&#8221;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All was going well with his weekend until Mr. Cole decided to pick-up a pizza for dinner and ran into a group of his fellow protesters on their way to a march. &#8220;I told them last Friday that I had to go out of town for a funeral and then they caught me picking up a pizza&#8221;.\u00a0 Mr. Cole advises that his fellow protesters were upset with him for not supporting the cause.\u00a0 &#8220;The problem is that I have been to so many marches and protests that I couldn&#8217;t remember what the cause was this week.\u00a0 There are so many things to protest right now I got confused and I really just wanted to stay home and watch the NHL All-Star Game&#8221; said Cole.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of his missing the protest last weekend Mr. Cole has agreed to support his fellow protesters\u00a0as they plan on holding a\u00a0gathering at the riverfront at the end of the month\u00a0to encourage more protesting in general.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON &#8211; Local activist, Kyle Cole, of Windsor was caught not protesting anything this past weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Said the 24 year-old University of Windsor political science major &#8220;I was just burned out on making signs and attending marches and protests.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}