{"id":31301,"date":"2017-01-24T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=31301"},"modified":"2017-01-24T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:58:43","slug":"the-facts-of-life-how-many-people-joined-dcs-womens-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=31301","title":{"rendered":"The Facts of Life: how many people joined DC’s Women’s March?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m ignoring “alternative facts” here. (I suppose calling them Alt-Fax would be as hip as we can get, given alt-right and Alt-Reich and whatever. Yes, Alt-Fax, because it’s so much easier to type than the, um, alternative. Did you get that? Ha ha? It was accidental.)<\/p>\n

Oh dear, I didn’t quite ignore them, did I?<\/p>\n

But here’s a credible number from 538’s Significant Digits:<\/p>\n

470,000 people<\/em><\/h2>\n

Crowd scientists estimate that at least 470,000 people attended the Women\u2019s March in Washington. D.C. Metro ridership was measured at 1,001,613 entries, the second-biggest daily volume in the history of the D.C. Metro, after only President Obama\u2019s 2009 inauguration day, which saw about 1.1 million entries. [The Washington Post<\/a>, The New York Times<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m ignoring “alternative facts” here. (I suppose calling them Alt-Fax would be as hip as we can get, given alt-right and Alt-Reich and whatever. Yes, Alt-Fax, because it’s so much easier to type than the, um, alternative. Did you get … Continue reading →<\/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":[1175],"tags":[1176],"class_list":["post-31301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-the-facts-of-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t