{"id":12812,"date":"2018-08-26T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12812"},"modified":"2018-08-26T13:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:26:02","slug":"chicago-residents-reflect-on-anniversary-of-1968-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12812","title":{"rendered":"Chicago residents reflect on anniversary of 1968 riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65.980861244\">\n<p>Community activists in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\"> United States<\/a> are marking 50 years since the infamous Chicago riots.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2012\/08\/201281992929244661.html\">1968<\/a>, a 10,000-strong protest against the war in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/vietnam.html\">Vietnam<\/a> turned into a day of violence with police.<\/p>\n<p>Amid growing dissatisfaction with the government, the months leading up to the riot had seen racial and political tensions rise.<\/p>\n<p>Many in the city see similarities between then and now.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s John Hendren reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community activists in the United States are marking 50 years since the infamous Chicago riots. In 1968, a 10,000-strong protest against the war in Vietnam turned into a day of violence with police. Amid growing dissatisfaction with the government, the months leading up to the riot had seen racial and political tensions rise. Many in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}