{"id":180433,"date":"2023-04-13T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/?p=189534"},"modified":"2023-04-13T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T22:04:53","slug":"democracy-taxes-and-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/democracy-taxes-and-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy, Taxes and Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a dark day for our democracy when state legislatures expel members for speaking out against gun violence instead of focusing on sensible action to end a preventable epidemic killing our children in school and on the streets. The Tennessee Speaker of the House called the lawmakers\u2019 actions \u201cunacceptable,\u201d but what is truly unacceptable is ignoring the senseless mass shooting of three\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/2023\/04\/13\/online-extra-letters-apr-13\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018DEMOCRACY,\u2019 TENNESSEE STYLE It is a dark day for our democracy when state legislatures expel members for speaking out against gun violence instead of focusing \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/2023\/04\/13\/online-extra-letters-apr-13\/\">Continue reading\u00a0<span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,77,2],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-180433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ew-extra","category-letters","category-news","tag-web-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}