{"id":169945,"date":"2018-07-09T01:29:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T05:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=169945"},"modified":"2018-07-09T01:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T05:29:58","slug":"protesters-confront-mcconnell-outside-kentucky-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/09\/protesters-confront-mcconnell-outside-kentucky-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters confront McConnell outside Kentucky restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95867\" style=\"width: 837px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1617840_740148079341038_3232427552192450490_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95867\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1617840_740148079341038_3232427552192450490_o.jpg\" alt=\"A group of protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the Trump administration's immigration policy as he left dinner in Kentucky, in the second such incident in under a month.(Photo: Mitch McConnell\/Facebook)\" width=\"837\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1617840_740148079341038_3232427552192450490_o.jpg 837w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1617840_740148079341038_3232427552192450490_o-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1617840_740148079341038_3232427552192450490_o-768x881.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration policy as he left dinner in Kentucky, in the second such incident in under a month. <a href=\"http:\/\/com\/McConnellForSenate\/photos\/a.259146007441250.64202.259130650776119\/740148079341038\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">(Photo: Mitch McConnell\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. -A group of protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration policy as he left dinner in Kentucky, in the second such incident in under a month.<\/p>\n<p>News outlets report the group outside Louisville&#8217;s Bristol Bar &amp; Grille chanted \u201cAbolish ICE!\u201don Saturday. The impromptu protest took place near where hundreds protested the government&#8217;s now-ended family separation policy outside an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office.<\/p>\n<p>One protester asked, \u201cWhere are the babies, Mitch?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s dining companion, Kentucky politician Jonathan Shell, characterized the protesting group as \u201csmall\u201dand \u201cextremist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shell criticized one protester who called McConnell \u201cturtle head\u201d and said, \u201cWe know where you live.\u201d While the protest was attended by Louisville&#8217;s Democratic Socialists of America, the chapter said in a statement that that protester was unaffiliated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. -A group of protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration policy as he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[52953,36751],"class_list":["post-169945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-louisvilles-bristol-bar-grille","tag-senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}