{"id":2325,"date":"2017-10-10T21:51:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T01:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2017-10-12T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:37:14","slug":"your-home-should-be-a-safe-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"Your Home Should Be A Safe Space!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/homesafespace\/homesafespace_shortcrop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/homesafespace\/homesafespace_shortcrop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"826\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite the personal possession and use of cannabis being legal in DC,<\/strong> residents of Federally-subsidized Section 8 public housing are prohibited from smoking in their homes. Because Congress prohibits DC from enacting Tax&#8217;n&#8217;Regulate and the <a href=\"http:\/\/dcmj.org\/let-the-ban-expire\/\" target=\"_blank\">DC government prohibits public consumption in bars and clubs,<\/a> folks in Section 8 have the choice of risking immediate eviction and possible imprisonment by smoking in their homes, or smoking on the street and risking arrest for smoking in public, like <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2285\" target=\"_blank\">this poor working-class slob.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder Section 8 is often referred to as &#8220;prison you pay rent for&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;15 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/homesafespace\/homesafespace_shortcrop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 806kb<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/homesafespace\/homesafespace.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image with Oct. 31 HUD event info,<\/a> 1.4mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the personal possession and use of cannabis being legal in DC, residents of Federally-subsidized Section 8 public housing are prohibited from smoking in their homes. Because Congress prohibits DC from enacting Tax&#8217;n&#8217;Regulate and the DC government prohibits public consumption in bars and clubs, folks in Section 8 have the choice of risking immediate eviction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20,5],"tags":[837,836,568,838,835,834],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-local","category-health-care","category-liberty","tag-carson","tag-hud","tag-marijuana","tag-marijuana-legalization","tag-public-housing","tag-section-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}