{"id":2782,"date":"2013-11-27T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T22:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/marijuana-ban-hurts-city-fortunes\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:20:25","slug":"marijuana-ban-hurts-city-fortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/marijuana-ban-hurts-city-fortunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana ban hurts city fortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I am extremely disappointed that the Kent City Council has decided to ban marijuana in the city. Turning down business opportunities and increased employment and the biggie, increased taxes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The city must be doing remarkably well and must not need any increased revenue. I am expecting the services in the city to increase and my taxes to go down.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If this is not the case then I will scream loudly and consistently that you had a chance to get extra revenue and you turned it down. Do not come to me for extra money when you turn down legitimate opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Get your collective heads out of the sand and join the 21st century.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Carol Barber<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am extremely disappointed that the Kent City Council has decided to ban marijuana in the city. Turning down business opportunities and increased employment and the biggie, increased taxes.<\/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-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782"}],"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=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}