{"id":87424,"date":"2017-02-01T04:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87424"},"modified":"2017-02-01T04:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:20:22","slug":"protesters-rally-against-us-travel-ban-near-tokyo-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/01\/protesters-rally-against-us-travel-ban-near-tokyo-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters rally against US travel ban near Tokyo embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_87425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87425\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/us-embassy-tokyo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87425\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/us-embassy-tokyo.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters rally against US travel ban near Tokyo embassy (Photo by Rs1421 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/us-embassy-tokyo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/us-embassy-tokyo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/us-embassy-tokyo-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rally against US travel ban near Tokyo embassy (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AEmbassy-of-the-United-States-of-America-in-Japan-01.jpg\"> Rs1421 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>TOKYO\u2014Some 40 people protested near the US Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday morning against President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order banning entry to the United States of people from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, mostly Americans living in Japan, came together in solidarity with people affected by the order signed Friday, chanting such slogans as &#8220;Build bridges not walls&#8221;, and &#8220;No ban, no wall, America is for all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We feel very passionately about this issue&#8230; because our grandparents were immigrants and survived the holocaust&#8230; and the United States took us in and that is why we are here,&#8221; said Jess Glickstein, a lawyer in Tokyo who organized the protest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\u2014Some 40 people protested near the US Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday morning against President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order banning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,6,16,17],"tags":[9869,14475,14476],"class_list":["post-87424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-immigration","category-news","category-news-w","tag-donald-trump","tag-thomas-homas","tag-us-immigration","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87424","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=87424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}