{"id":31950,"date":"2018-03-30T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31950"},"modified":"2018-03-30T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:53:37","slug":"friday-fun-march-for-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/friday-fun-march-for-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun &#8211; March For Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Washington_A0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Washington_A0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Washington_A0.png 666w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Washington_A0-150x98.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Washington_A0-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No doubt we all enjoyed viewing lots of photos from last Saturday\u2019s <strong><em>\u201cMarch For Our Lives\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 So this will be a review for most of those photos \u2013 but I thought we should memorialize such a huge event whose impact is still sending ripples across our country.<\/p>\n<p>But there were so many to choose from I decided, that for better or worse, I\u2019d do it as a slideshow to save on \u201creal estate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The first slideshow is of the crowd in Washington, DC \u2013 clearly the largest one of the over 800 rallies that took place across America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Crowd_02_DC.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Crowd_02_DC.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But DC wasn\u2019t the only site \u2013 so here are a few of the other ones.<\/p>\n<p>I should have captioned each one \u2013 but it was time-consuming enough just to select, organize and format as slideshows all the photos to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>But to help out, they\u2019re alphabetical.\u00a0 The first one is of <strong><em>Albuquerque<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 it\u2019s the one with the kids in the front with their backs to the camera all dressed in black t-shirts with their arms around each other.<\/p>\n<p>Albuquerque<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage<\/p>\n<p>Boston<\/p>\n<p>Chicago<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Springs ?<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>Montpelier, VT<\/p>\n<p>NYC<\/p>\n<p>NYC <em>(White angels)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NYC <em>(White angels)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parkland, FL<\/p>\n<p>Rochester, NY<\/p>\n<p>St. Paul<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Crowd_01.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Crowd_01.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\">The last slideshow is of some of the signs I really enjoyed.\u00a0 No doubt everyone has a favorite, so feel free to share it \u2013 or a link to it in Comments.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\">(Because the &#8220;Hyperbole, Assholes&#8221; one (my favorite!) is quite tall and the photos are centered vertically, it skews the formatting.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a little slower and bigger to help reading them)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Crowd_03_Signs.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-For-Our-Lives_Crowd_03_Signs.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"968\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>There was a Tweet showing huge Los Angeles Crowd in a Video<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Turn up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LosAngeles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LosAngeles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarchForOurLives?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarchForOurLives<\/a> \u270a?\u270c? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5ZxU1PcEpO\">pic.twitter.com\/5ZxU1PcEpO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nicholas Bianchi (@nbianchi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbianchi\/status\/977597981237981184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>And CNN had a Great Video of Aerials of Lots of Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately WordPress doesn\u2019t accommodate embedding CNN videos \u2013 so I\u2019ll just provide a link to it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/24\/us\/march-for-our-lives-latest\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/24\/us\/march-for-our-lives-latest\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt we all enjoyed viewing lots of photos from last Saturday\u2019s \u201cMarch For Our Lives\u201d.\u00a0 So this will be a review for most of those photos \u2013 but I thought we should memorialize such a huge event whose impact is still sending ripples across our country. 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