{"id":4136,"date":"2007-12-03T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2017-11-24T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T15:11:41","slug":"its-only-tricky-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/03\/its-only-tricky-in-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Only Tricky In 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an obvious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/D973C1D7A736C3BE862573A6000384A3?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Constitutional crisis<\/a> in the making:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Either way, a two-story mural decrying eminent domain is testing the boundaries of the First Amendment, sparking a federal lawsuit that challenges the city&#8217;s intricate zoning code.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is a tricky constitutional dilemma \u2014 fighting clutter versus protecting free speech \u2014 that experts say could force St. Louis to rewrite its laws regarding outdoor signs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When your basic Bill of Rights freedom runs counter to a municipal regulation applied to a political message advocating the limitation of government power, which should win?  In 2007 America, apparently it&#8217;s a toss-up.  At least according to the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an obvious Constitutional crisis in the making: Either way, a two-story mural decrying eminent domain is testing the boundaries of the First Amendment, sparking a federal lawsuit that challenges the city&#8217;s intricate zoning code. At issue is a tricky constitutional dilemma \u2014 fighting clutter versus protecting free speech \u2014 that experts say could force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17723,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/17723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}