{"id":14780,"date":"2015-04-01T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T00:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/homeless-man-has-right-to-be-on-public-land\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T00:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:45:38","slug":"homeless-man-has-right-to-be-on-public-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/homeless-man-has-right-to-be-on-public-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man has right to be on public land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I was appalled at an article I read in the (Feb. 27) Kent Reporter about a homeless man getting ticketed for sleeping under a bridge in his sleeping bag.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It said he was trespassing on state Department of Transportation land. Excuse me, but DOT is part of the government and know what? We the people are the government. We own the public lands.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>So, if this man was a citizen of the United States of America, regardless of his economic status, he has as much right to be on this land, his land, as the DOT or anyone else. One cannot trespass on his or her own land. No trespassing signs, on public lands, makes no sense whatsoever and should be promptly removed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Claudia Culbertson<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was appalled at an article I read in the (Feb. 27) Kent Reporter about a homeless man getting ticketed for sleeping under a bridge in his sleeping bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}