{"id":5220,"date":"2012-04-05T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:21:02","slug":"stand-your-ground-boycotts-having-an-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/stand-your-ground-boycotts-having-an-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; boycotts having an effect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/04\/05\/150013705\/boycotts-hitting-group-behind-stand-your-ground\">From NPR:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two of America&#8217;s best-known companies, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have dropped their memberships in the American Legislative Exchange Council, a low-profile conservative organization behind the national proliferation of &#8220;stand your ground&#8221; gun laws.<\/p>\n<p>ALEC promotes business-friendly legislation in state capitols and drafts model bills for state legislatures to adopt. They range from little-noticed pro-business bills to more controversial measures, including voter-identification laws and stand your ground laws based on the Florida statute. About two-dozen states now have such laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR: Two of America&#8217;s best-known companies, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have dropped their memberships in the American Legislative Exchange Council, a low-profile conservative organization behind the national proliferation of &#8220;stand your ground&#8221; gun laws. ALEC promotes business-friendly legislation in state capitols and drafts model bills for state legislatures to adopt. They range from little-noticed pro-business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/stand-your-ground-boycotts-having-an-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; boycotts having an effect?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1mc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}