{"id":225,"date":"2006-05-02T09:07:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T09:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=225"},"modified":"2006-05-02T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T09:07:55","slug":"look-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Look and learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone clever once said &#8220;That&#8217;s the way to do it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,,1765520,00.html\"><strong>US counts cost of day without immigrants<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>Protests force firms to close and hit industry<br \/>\n<strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>More than 1 million take to streets over new bill<\/p>\n<p>A sea of white-shirted protesters 300,000 strong, chanting &#8220;Si, se puede&#8221; (&#8220;Yes, it can be done&#8221;) surged through Los Angeles.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/4961734.stm\"> \t\t\t\t\tUS immigrants stage boycott day\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mass rallies were staged across the US as immigrants <strong>boycotted work or school and avoided spending money<\/strong> as a way of showing their worth to the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Monday being a normal working day in the US, many businesses were forced to close as workers in industries including agriculture, construction and leisure withheld their labour.<\/p>\n<p>Goya Foods halted distribution for the day, while Tyson Foods, the world&#8217;s largest meat producer, shut nine of its 15 plants.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if they really want to make a difference, they could always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/iran\">try a petition.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone clever once said &#8220;That&#8217;s the way to do it!&#8221; US counts cost of day without immigrants \u00b7 Protests force firms to close and hit industry \u00b7 More than 1 million take to streets over new bill A sea of white-shirted protesters 300,000 strong, chanting &#8220;Si, se puede&#8221; (&#8220;Yes, it can be done&#8221;) surged through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,11,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}