{"id":6457,"date":"2017-10-13T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:52:42","slug":"colin-kaepernick-took-knee-us-army-veteran-nate-boyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/colin-kaepernick-took-knee-us-army-veteran-nate-boyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Colin Kaepernick Took a Knee (US Army Veteran, Nate Boyer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4nyaL8qmK0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><br \/>\nMatt Orfalea<br \/>\nPublished on Oct 9, 2017<\/p>\n<p>It was US Army veteran, Nate Boyer who suggested to Kaepernick to take a knee as a sign of respect. Kaepernicks protest was no statement on the military but to call attention to police brutality in America where cops are getting paid leave for murdering unarmed Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Matt Orfalea<\/p>\n<p>Footage courtesy HBO, ESPN, CBS, ITV, TZM, Getty Images, Al Jazeera, FOX, ABC, CNN<\/p>\n<p>Music: \u201cThe F Word (RJD2 Remix)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Support independent media!<br \/>\n\u25b6https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Orf<\/p>\n<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Matt Orfalea \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n\u25b6https:\/\/twitter.com\/0rf<br \/>\n\u25b6https:\/\/medium.com\/@0rf<br \/>\n\u25b6https:\/\/facebook.com\/matt.orfalea<\/p>\n<p>Help us caption &#038; translate this video!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/amara.org\/v\/bZxA\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Orfalea Published on Oct 9, 2017 It was US Army veteran, Nate Boyer who suggested to Kaepernick to take a knee as a sign of respect. Kaepernicks protest was no statement on the military but to call attention to police brutality in America where cops are getting paid leave&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/colin-kaepernick-took-knee-us-army-veteran-nate-boyer\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6458,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/6458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}