{"id":2792,"date":"2016-04-18T00:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/deray-mckessons-journey-from-ferguson-protester-to-running-for-mayor\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:08:22","slug":"deray-mckessons-journey-from-ferguson-protester-to-running-for-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/deray-mckessons-journey-from-ferguson-protester-to-running-for-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"DeRay Mckesson&#039;s journey from Ferguson protester to running for mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deray_v3.00_12_50_09.still004\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE3LzIzL2RlcmF5X3YzLjAwLjQ3NTRkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/cd19a2b4\/9b1\/deray_v3.00_12_50_09.Still004.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=DeRay+Mckesson%27s+journey+from+Ferguson+protester+to+running+for+mayor&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Fderay-mckesson-election%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Fderay-mckesson-election%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>Mashable<\/em> went to Baltimore to have a conversation with activist, educator and organizer DeRay Mckesson about his journey to becoming a Baltimore mayor hopeful. Though his odds at winning the election may be slim, his storying is undeniably triumphant.<\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/on.mash.to\/1VvxWDz\">http:\/\/on.mash.to\/1VvxWDz<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/17\/deray-mckesson-election\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/election\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Election<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/protests\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Protests<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mayor\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mayor<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/5tD79tqgwVs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mashable went to Baltimore to have a conversation with activist, educator and organizer DeRay Mckesson about his journey to becoming a Baltimore mayor hopeful. Though his odds at winning the election may be slim, his storying is undeniably triumphant. Full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/deray-mckessons-journey-from-ferguson-protester-to-running-for-mayor\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1939,2010,749,2009,732],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-election","tag-mayor","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}