{"id":1654,"date":"2015-10-03T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T16:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2015-10-03T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T16:41:49","slug":"liberty-farm-the-story-of-martha-boneta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2015\/10\/03\/liberty-farm-the-story-of-martha-boneta\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Farm The Story of Martha Boneta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Boneta is the kind of person who need to be protected from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t own a farm, this is a must-see story.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;The film, just 28 minutes long, tells the story of Martha Boneta, who bought a small farm in Virginia and tried to make a go of it by selling produce and so on. She was viciously harassed by a variety of government agencies and environmental groups who evidently intended to drive her out of business.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be a classic example of the abuse of regulatory power to promote private interests and ideological agendas. Ms. Boneta\u2019s farm home was subjected to repeated and apparently purposeless inspections of closets, bathrooms and so on. At one point, she was cited for holding an \u201cevent\u201d without obtaining thousands of dollars worth of licenses and permits. The \u201cevent\u201d was a birthday party for a friend\u2019s daughter.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2015\/10\/farming-in-fear.php\" title=\"Farming in Fear\" target=\"_blank\">Farming in Fear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Boneta is the kind of person who need to be protected from the government. Even if you don&#8217;t own a farm, this is a must-see story. &#8220;The film, just 28 minutes long, tells the story of Martha Boneta, who bought a small farm in Virginia and tried to make a go of it by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","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=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}