{"id":2765,"date":"2014-05-27T22:25:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2014-05-29T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T23:33:03","slug":"a-good-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/a-good-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy weekend, but a good weekend.  Members of the Massachusetts Pirate Party took part in three events: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/148839068610727\/\" target=\"_blank\">March<\/a> Against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.march-against-monsanto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monsanto<\/a>, the 2nd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/boston-security-meetup\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Security Meetup<\/a>, and an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theyoungjurks\" target=\"_blank\">The Young Jurks<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/wemfradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WEMF Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March Against Monsanto<\/strong>.  We marched to the State House and Copley Square with Pirate literature and a large Pirate sign. Many members of diverse political parties were in attendance including Socialist Alternative, Green-Rainbow, and We The People. Approximately 3,000 people participated, and the entire event clocked in at around five hours.  We&#8217;ll continue to participate in events that rally against corporate excess, especially corporations like Monsanto who abuse IP law flagrantly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boston Security Meetup<\/strong>.  Captain James gave a talk called <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HowDareYouMolestTheSea.pdf\">How Dare You Molest the Sea<\/a>, to an audience of pirates, ninjas, and other security-minded folk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Young Jurks<\/strong>.  Noe and Joe ended the day with an interview on WEMF&#8217;s The Young Jurks.  You can watch the interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikecann.net\/2014\/05\/the-young-jurks-ma-state-rep-candidates.html\" target=\"_blank\">mikecann.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy weekend, but a good weekend. Members of the Massachusetts Pirate Party took part in three events: the March Against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":2766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A good weekend for Mass Pirates","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-out-and-about"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_6086-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-IB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}