{"id":23355,"date":"2013-08-08T16:17:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2013-08-08T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:17:47","slug":"dream-defenders-score-victory-lawmakers-to-review-stand-your-ground-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23355","title":{"rendered":"Dream Defenders Score Victory: Lawmakers To Review \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folding to revolutionary pressure, Florida lawmakers announced last Friday that they will hold hearings this fall on the state\u2019s controversial and racially biased \u201cStand Your Ground\u201d\u00a0 laws.<\/p>\n<p><b>Will Weatherford<\/b>, the speaker of Florida\u2019s House of Representatives, made the announcement, which marks the largest victory to date for the bold and courageous \u2018Dream Defenders.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross Florida, representatives are receiving calls, letters, visits and emails from constituents with diverse opinions on \u2018Stand Your Ground,\u2019\u201d <b>Weatherford<\/b> said. \u201cPassions are high, but every person has the right to express their views on this matter of great importance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folding to revolutionary pressure, Florida lawmakers announced last Friday that they will hold hearings this fall on the state\u2019s controversial and racially biased \u201cStand Your Ground\u201d\u00a0 laws. Will Weatherford, the speaker of Florida\u2019s House of Representatives, made the announcement, which marks the largest victory to date for the bold and courageous \u2018Dream Defenders.\u2019 \u201cAcross Florida, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}