{"id":1906,"date":"2017-05-01T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2017-05-01T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:04:32","slug":"lincoln-climate-march-draws-hundreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/01\/lincoln-climate-march-draws-hundreds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Climate March draws hundreds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than 200 protesters gathered Saturday morning to voice their concerns about climate change and its lack of acceptance by the public and elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>Participants marched from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Union to the State Capitol before gathering at The Bourbon Theatre. The event was one of more than 300 satellite marches across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>John Atkeison, the lead organizer of the Lincoln march, said the protest was meant to get the attention of more than just elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main motivating force for dealing with change is at the grass roots,\u201d he said. \u201cThe politicians that are in power now don\u2019t address the problem. They\u2019ve been doing little or nothing about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/local\/lincoln-climate-march-draws-hundreds-of-protesters\/article_72f35e2f-42b7-50ea-891a-15bcd8b73ce8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star: More than 200 protesters gathered Saturday morning to voice their concerns about climate change and its lack of acceptance by the public and elected officials. Participants marched from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Union to the State Capitol before gathering at The Bourbon Theatre. The event was one of more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/01\/lincoln-climate-march-draws-hundreds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lincoln Climate March draws hundreds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[13,10,17,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}