{"id":1049,"date":"2015-03-05T03:18:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2015-03-05T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:19:12","slug":"fearless-city-council-tackles-the-vital-issue-of-mini-bottle-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/fearless-city-council-tackles-the-vital-issue-of-mini-bottle-litter\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless City Council Tackles the Vital Issue of Mini-bottle Litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/news\/local_news\/finance-committee-deadlocks-miniature-liquor-bottle-ban\/article_36a634a1-5636-5a3f-99aa-96664a5cae66.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Fe, New Mexico city Finance Committee debated<\/a> whether the city should ban the sale of miniature liquor bottles.\u00a0 This prompts the immediate question:\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What are these rascal politicians up to now?\u00a0 The measure&#8217;s sponsor, one Signe Lindell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/article\/stories\/s3714186.shtml#.VPgoilgtE5s\" target=\"_blank\">asserts<\/a> that the empty bottles litter the city.\u00a0 The Finance Committee deadlocked 2-2 on the issue, but the proposal will still go before the full City Council in April because some other committee meeting at some other time already approved it.\u00a0 This is how they roll in Santa Fe, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>One sane member of the committee, Joseph Maestas,\u00a0spoke out against the measure.\u00a0 &#8220;Frankly&#8230; the public expects us to really take on, I think, the bigger issues of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s about right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday the Santa Fe, New Mexico city Finance Committee debated whether the city should ban the sale of miniature liquor bottles.\u00a0 This prompts the immediate question:\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What are these rascal politicians up to now?\u00a0 The measure&#8217;s sponsor, one Signe Lindell, asserts that the empty bottles litter the city.\u00a0 The Finance Committee deadlocked 2-2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[255,256,254,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}