{"id":2562,"date":"2016-11-09T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2016-11-09T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T03:41:59","slug":"californians-legalize-marijuana-in-vote-that-could-echo-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"Californians Legalize Marijuana in Vote That Could Echo Nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>California, Massachusetts and Nevada legalized marijuana on Tuesday in what advocates said was a reflection of the country\u2019s changing attitude toward the drug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/09\/us\/politics\/marijuana-legalization.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\">Californians Legalize Marijuana in Vote That Could Echo Nationally &#8211; The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Supporters in California portrayed legalization as both a social justice and a criminal justice issue, saying the measure would help redress the disproportionate numbers of arrests and convictions among minorities for drug crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California, Massachusetts and Nevada legalized marijuana on Tuesday in what advocates said was a reflection of the country\u2019s changing attitude toward the drug. via Californians Legalize Marijuana in Vote That Could Echo Nationally &#8211; The New York Times. Supporters in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[134,117],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-2016-election","tag-drug-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}