{"id":6076,"date":"2016-01-19T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2016-01-18T23:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T04:55:40","slug":"wapo-comes-out-against-liquor-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6076","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Comes Out Against Liquor Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/breaking-montgomery-countys-monopoly-on-booze\/2016\/01\/18\/515ead94-bbde-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html\">the <em>Washington Post<\/em> endorsed<\/a> Del. Bill Frick&#8217;s bill to allow voters to decide whether to end Montgomery County&#8217;s &#8220;antiquated&#8221; liquor monopoly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s time to scrap Montgomery\u2019s liquor monopoly. How many times, and for how many years, must the county demonstrate that notwithstanding its proficiency in running libraries, maintaining parks or educating children, it is inept at the liquor business?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Washington Post endorsed Del. Bill Frick&#8217;s bill to allow voters to decide whether to end Montgomery County&#8217;s &#8220;antiquated&#8221; liquor monopoly: It\u2019s time to scrap Montgomery\u2019s liquor monopoly. How many times, and for how many years, must the county demonstrate that notwithstanding its proficiency in running libraries, maintaining parks or educating children, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WaPo Comes Out Against Liquor Monopoly<\/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],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department-of-liquor-control","tag-bill-frick-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1A0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076","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=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6081,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}