{"id":40215,"date":"2019-07-23T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40215"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T16:22:15","slug":"government-laughs-at-us-theyve-no-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40215","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Government laughs at us. They&#8217;ve no heart&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)<\/cite>Erica Diaz&#8217;s 6-year-old daughter convinced her to join the burgeoning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/18\/us\/puerto-rico-protests-thursday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">protest movement<\/a> against Puerto Rico Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/22\/us\/puerto-rico-protests-monday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ricardo Rossell\u00f3<\/a>. The 40-year-old stay-at-home mom had never attended a protest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;She said, &#8216;Mami, you taught me to respect all people. We shouldn&#8217;t make fun of people. Why aren&#8217;t we out there with the people?'&#8221; Diaz said. Her daughter, Valerie, had just finished first grade. &#8220;She&#8217;s the reason I&#8217;m here,&#8221; Diaz said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Valerie held a sign with a hand-drawn Puerto Rican flag and<strong> <\/strong>the message, &#8220;Don&#8217;t close our schools&#8221; &#8212; one in a litany of complaints against the governor. They stood in the shade on the side of a highway in the capital of San Juan as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preview.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/22\/us\/puerto-rico-protests-monday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of thousands of marchers<\/a> shut down traffic Monday in a series of island-wide protests. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)Erica Diaz&#8217;s 6-year-old daughter convinced her to join the burgeoning protest movement against Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossell\u00f3. The 40-year-old stay-at-home mom had never attended a protest.&#8221;She said, &#8216;Mami, you taught me to respect all people. We shouldn&#8217;t make fun of people. Why aren&#8217;t we out there with the people?'&#8221; Diaz&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215","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=40215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}