{"id":5573,"date":"2015-08-18T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2015-08-18T09:53:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:53:41","slug":"franchot-dlc-is-a-mecca-of-anti-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5573","title":{"rendered":"Franchot: DLC is &#8220;a Mecca of Anti-Consumerism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2TO9Zu8W1Ew\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Comptroller Peter Franchot on Montgomery County&#8217;s monopoly over retail and wholesale sales of alcohol in the Country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Montgomery County is the last bastion of a medieval state system.<\/p>\n<p>This is a system that is incredibly slanted against the consumer and the ordinary citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Most people in Montgomery County go to Prince George&#8217;s County, or the District or to Virginia to buy their alcohol because it&#8217;s such a disgrace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And these are some of the nicer things he has to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comptroller Peter Franchot on Montgomery County&#8217;s monopoly over retail and wholesale sales of alcohol in the Country: Montgomery County is the last bastion of a medieval state system. This is a system that is incredibly slanted against the consumer and the ordinary citizen. Most people in Montgomery County go to Prince George&#8217;s County, or the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Franchot: DLC is &#8220;a Mecca of Anti-Consumerism&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1449,63],"tags":[1472],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department-of-liquor-control","category-montgomery-county","tag-peter-franchot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1rT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}