{"id":107,"date":"2017-08-22T02:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T02:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/?p=107"},"modified":"2017-08-21T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T02:17:10","slug":"aclu-rethink-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/aclu-rethink-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The A.C.L.U. Needs to Rethink Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union has a long history of defending the First Amendment rights of groups on both the far left and the far right. This commitment led the organization to successfully sue the city of Charlottesville, Va., last week on behalf of a white supremacist rally organizer. The rally ended with a Nazi sympathizer plowing his car into a crowd, killing a counterprotester and injuring many.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/17\/opinion\/aclu-first-amendment-trump-charlottesville.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union has a long history of defending the First Amendment rights of groups on both the far left and the far right. This commitment led the organization to successfully sue the city of Charlottesville, Va., last week on behalf of a white supremacist rally organizer. The rally ended with a Nazi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/aclu-rethink-free-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The A.C.L.U. Needs to Rethink Free Speech<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}