{"id":1724,"date":"2021-01-11T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:00:49","slug":"uprising-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Uprising-45.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Uprising-45-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Uprising-45\" class=\"wp-image-583\" width=\"580\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Uprising-45-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Uprising-45-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Uprising-45-768x762.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Uprising-45-1024x1016.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Uprising-45.jpg 1593w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Clowns rose up in anger one day&nbsp;deciding enough was enough.&nbsp; They poured out into the streets en masse,&nbsp;yelling and juggling stuff.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They wanted \u2018equal rights\u2019, they said,&nbsp;to be \u2018taken seriously\u2019.                  An end to random giggles and leers. They wanted respect, you see.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Snarling traffic with mini Clown cars,&nbsp;squirtling flowers and ties,&nbsp;   their strike turned into a riot (of sorts) pelting police with pies.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They overwhelmed the barricades,&nbsp;storming the walls and ditches    and made their way up to capital hill,&nbsp;leaving the cops in stitches.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But as they breached the chamber doors, their smiles turned into frowns, for the senate was already occupied&nbsp;by Idiots, Mimes and Clowns.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I wrote this piece (and John illustrated it) almost two decades ago.&nbsp; I thought, for sure, things MUST have changed for the better by now&#8230;but no.&nbsp; Anyway, it finally got published in our third book, \u201cBludgeon the Clown,&#8221; which you can&nbsp;find (and buy) following the www.sallemander.com to our Etsy shop (link at the top), or by going to www.etsy.com, search EEWbooks.&nbsp; -Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clowns rose up in anger one day&nbsp;deciding enough was enough.&nbsp; They poured out into the streets en masse,&nbsp;yelling and juggling stuff.&nbsp; They wanted \u2018equal rights\u2019, they said,&nbsp;to be \u2018taken seriously\u2019. An end to random giggles and leers. They wanted respect, you see.&nbsp; Snarling traffic with mini Clown cars,&nbsp;squirtling flowers and ties,&nbsp; their strike turned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uprising<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242,125,241],"tags":[128,248,176,99,10,279,204,252,102,280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}