{"id":762,"date":"2004-03-12T18:39:48","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/back_to_your_freespeech_pen\/"},"modified":"2004-03-12T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T23:39:48","slug":"back_to_your_freespeech_pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/back_to_your_freespeech_pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Your Free-Speech Pen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/03\/12\/politics\/main605645.shtml\">This<\/a> should should serve as a lesson to anyone who dares breach their government-designated free-speech zone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A snowplow driver in Cleveland has been suspended from his job after displaying an anti-Bush sign.<br \/>\nWhen President Bush visited Cleveland this week, Michael Gerstenslager, a highway maintenance worker, was asked to help provide security for the president&#8217;s motorcade by using his snowplow to block access to a highway entrance, the Cleveland Plan Dealer reported.<br \/>\nGerstenslager hung a sign on the side of the plow that said &#8220;traitor&#8221; \ufffd a message aimed at Mr. Bush.<br \/>\nA state trooper in the president&#8217;s motorcade saw the sign and reported it to the Ohio transportation department.<br \/>\nA spokeswoman for the agency says the driver has been suspended with pay while his actions are investigated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/back_to_your_freespeech_pen\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Back to Your Free-Speech Pen!\"><p>This should should serve as a lesson to anyone who dares breach their government-designated free-speech zone: A snowplow driver in Cleveland has been suspended from his job after displaying an anti-Bush sign. When President Bush visited Cleveland this week, Michael Gerstenslager, a highway maintenance worker, was asked to help provide security for the president&#8217;s motorcade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}