{"id":1515,"date":"2015-03-27T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2015-03-27T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T01:02:12","slug":"another-land-grab-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2015\/03\/27\/another-land-grab-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Land Grab in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While citizens are being herded into compact cities and steered away from rural lands, the government is taking more of those lands for itself.<\/p>\n<p><em>Continuing its pattern of bypassing Congress and acting unilaterally through administrative fiat, the Obama White House in February designated three new areas as \u201cNational Monuments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While two of the designations \u2014 one in Illinois, the other in Hawaii \u2014 involve relatively small parcels of land, the designation of 21,000 acres of Brown\u2019s Canyon in Colorado represents a significant federal lockup of land.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2015\/02\/24\/colorado-canyon-latest-obama-monument-designation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While citizens are being herded into compact cities and steered away from rural lands, the government is taking more of those lands for itself. Continuing its pattern of bypassing Congress and acting unilaterally through administrative fiat, the Obama White House in February designated three new areas as \u201cNational Monuments.\u201d While two of the designations \u2014 [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}