{"id":1032,"date":"2014-04-23T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2014-04-23T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T18:07:15","slug":"western-states-want-feds-to-surrender-federal-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2014\/04\/23\/western-states-want-feds-to-surrender-federal-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Western States Want Feds to Surrender \u201cFederal\u201d Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is a good start! There is nothing in the Constitution that states the federal government has the right to buy up land and then keep it from the people.<br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<p>Federal land-lording is also unwise for a variety of pragmatic reasons, experts argue, and there can be little doubt as to how America\u2019s Founders would have felt about it. \u201cI would say the last thing you want is the federal government&#8217;s ownership of lands,\u201d R.J. Smith, a senior fellow in environmental policy at the National Center for Public Policy Research, told Newsmax. \u201cThat&#8217;s not why this country was founded. That&#8217;s what the Founding Fathers were trying to escape \u2014 the king&#8217;s house, the king&#8217;s land, the king&#8217;s everything.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/18104-western-states-want-feds-to-surrender-federal-land\"><br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is a good start! There is nothing in the Constitution that states the federal government has the right to buy up land and then keep it from the people. Federal land-lording is also unwise for a variety of pragmatic reasons, experts argue, and there can be little doubt as to how America\u2019s Founders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}