{"id":1933,"date":"2012-12-28T00:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2012-12-28T00:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:28:25","slug":"first-amendment-grinches-steal-vandalize-ffrf-solstice-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/12\/28\/first-amendment-grinches-steal-vandalize-ffrf-solstice-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"First Amendment grinches steal, vandalize FFRF solstice signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers of my blog are well-aware that the FFRF’s “let reason prevail” holiday freethought banner which was placed on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre — following city approval — was vandalized by Joe McDonald who admitted to the vandalism in a local television news report<\/a> and in an interview on local talk radio<\/a>. In addition to admitting to the vandalism, McDonald was videotaped — within the news report — slicing two of the hopes holding the banner and placing an American flag in place of the banner.<\/p>\n

Today, the FFRF issued a news release noting that three banners — in addition to the Wilkes-Barre banner — were tampered with in various ways by ‘First Amendment grinches.’ In\u00a0Massachusetts, a banner was stolen. In Michigan, two banners were stolen.<\/p>\n

Read more in the FFRF’s latest news release<\/a> and stay tuned for updates concerning the Wilkes-Barre banner which, to my knowledge, has not yet been restored despite city officials being fully aware of the vandalism. Additionally, the vandal still has not been charged despite a police report that was filed on 12\/20\/12 and the public nature of the crime.<\/p>\n

Read more about the Wilkes-Barre banner by viewing other posts<\/a> concerning this matter on this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers of my blog are well-aware that the FFRF’s “let reason prevail” holiday freethought banner which was placed on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre — following city approval — was vandalized by Joe McDonald who admitted to the vandalism in a local television news report and in an interview on local talk radio. In addition to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,22,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ffrf-banner","category-local","category-separation-of-church-and-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}