{"id":36930,"date":"2011-04-13T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36930"},"modified":"2011-04-13T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:47:43","slug":"even-the-mayors-taking-to-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/even-the-mayors-taking-to-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the mayor&#8217;s taking to the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2011\/4\/13\/story\/dc_mayor_vincent_gray_arrested_protesting\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and several members of the D.C. Council were arrested Monday when they sat down in the middle of a key intersection in the nation\u2019s capital, blocking traffic to protest the federal budget deal between Democrats and Republicans. The proposed budget reimposes a Republican-backed ban on the District spending its own money to provide abortions to low-income women, and on needle exchange programs regarded as crucial to curbing the spread of HIV in D.C. &#8212; where the disease is considered an epidemic. Amy Goodman speaks to Mayor Gray about why he took to the streets in protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and several members of the D.C. Council were arrested Monday when they sat down in the middle of a key intersection in the nation\u2019s capital, blocking traffic to protest the federal budget deal between Democrats and Republicans. The proposed budget reimposes a Republican-backed ban on the District spending its own &#8230; <a title=\"Even the mayor&#8217;s taking to the streets\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/even-the-mayors-taking-to-the-streets\/\" aria-label=\"More on Even the mayor&#8217;s taking to the streets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}