{"id":1206,"date":"2012-03-07T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howtogoon.com\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:32:40","slug":"the-oldest-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/the-oldest-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Occupy Campaign in the Jan van Galen neighbourhood last weekend, we &#8216;occupied&#8217; the news &#038; opinion website <a href=\"http:\/\/joop.nl\">Joop.nl<\/a> with a series of twelve Occupy-related articles. You can access all the articles (in Dutch) on the Occupy Campaign site under the heading <em>press<\/em>. English versions will (hopefully) follow at some point. Meanwhile, here&#8217;s the English version of my contribution&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Oldest Profession <\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough much of the media attention seems dedicated to painting the Amsterdam branch of the Occupy movement as nothing more than a haven of criminal activity, grime and menace, care for co-Occupyers was precisely one of the most positive aspects of life on Beursplein. It was ensured that no-one became under-cooled, or over-upset, that food was distributed to one and all, etcetera. During the night the de-escalating tactics of the \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 maintained a level of quiet and safety (both, in fact, mainly threatened by outsiders, in particular visitors to the red Light District and the nearby student societies, who were often particularly aggressive)&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/the-oldest-profession\/\"target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Occupy Campaign in the Jan van Galen neighbourhood last weekend, we &#8216;occupied&#8217; the news &#038; opinion website Joop.nl with a series of twelve Occupy-related articles. You can access all the articles (in Dutch) on the Occupy Campaign site under the heading press. English versions will (hopefully) follow at some point. Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}