{"id":1166,"date":"2011-11-11T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T16:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:11:33","slug":"colored-troop-reenactors-escort-occupy-through-trenton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/colored-troop-reenactors-escort-occupy-through-trenton\/","title":{"rendered":"Colored Troop Reenactors Escort Occupy Through Trenton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 5:00pm today Revolutionary War Reenactors will meet Occupy Wall Street Protestors who are <a href=\"http:\/\/nycmarch2dc.wordpress.com\/\">marching from NYC to Washington DC<\/a> and escort them through Trenton, New Jersey&#8217;s capital. The Occupiers will follow Route 206 out of Princeton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Sgt-Ward-Ari-110430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Sgt-Ward-Ari-110430-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sgt Ward &amp; Ari 110430\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Sgt-Ward-Ari-110430-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Sgt-Ward-Ari-110430.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>16 year old Ari Wei of Fair Lawn, NJ <a href=\"http:\/\/weiboyz.com\/ari\/usct-6th-colored-troop\/\">joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/6thusct.org\/\">6th US Colored Troops\/1st Rhode Island Revolutionary War Regiment<\/a> last spring and is one of the individuals who will escort the Occupiers. Ari says, &#8220;Joining with Occupy Wall Street as a colored troop reenactor is an exciting experience. Two of my passions &#8211; history and social justice &#8211; will come together today. Good thing my school is closed for a teacher&#8217;s conference so I can participate without having to play hooky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/6thusct.org\/\">6th US Colored Troops<\/a> website for information about 1st Rhode Island Regiment and the 6th. Both troops share personnel and resources out of a Trenton location.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><br \/>\nFollow Occupy marchers on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NYCmarch2DC\">NYCmarch2DC<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out <a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/20111023\/people-of-color-and-occupy-wall-street\/\">People of Color and the Occupy Wall Street movement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5:00pm today Revolutionary War Reenactors will meet Occupy Wall Street Protestors who are marching from NYC to Washington DC and escort them through Trenton, New Jersey&#8217;s capital. The Occupiers will follow Route 206 out of Princeton. 16 year old Ari Wei of Fair Lawn, NJ joined the 6th US Colored Troops\/1st Rhode Island Revolutionary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/colored-troop-reenactors-escort-occupy-through-trenton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colored Troop Reenactors Escort Occupy Through Trenton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,160],"tags":[479,478,482,481,480],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-news-truths","tag-1st-rhode-island","tag-6th-us-ct","tag-ari-wei","tag-occupy-march","tag-reenactors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4469,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}