{"id":793,"date":"2006-03-11T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2006-03-11T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T05:15:00","slug":"let-freedom-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/let-freedom-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Let freedom ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060310\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_uk_rights_banner;_ylt=AlFivEM6SUbKo1BaQg23Q4qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-\" target=\"_blank\">Score one for the stoners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Alaska high school violated a student&#8217;s free speech rights by suspending him after he unfurled a banner reading &#8220;Bong Hits 4 Jesus&#8221; across the street from the school, a federal court ruled on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Frederick, a student at Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska, displayed the banner &#8212; which refers to smoking marijuana &#8212; in January 2002 to try to get on television as the Olympic torch relay was passing the school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I stand by my assertion that stoners are unfairly maligned as shiftless and lazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Score one for the stoners. An Alaska high school violated a student&#8217;s free speech rights by suspending him after he unfurled a banner reading &#8220;Bong Hits 4 Jesus&#8221; across the street from the school, a federal court ruled on Friday. Joseph Frederick, a student at Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska, displayed the banner &#8212; which refers to smoking marijuana &#8212; in January 2002 to try to get on television as the Olympic torch relay was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-cN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}