{"id":8613,"date":"2022-08-15T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2022-08-15T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:41:14","slug":"blocking-a-highway-is-not-a-legitimate-or-effective-form-of-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8613","title":{"rendered":"Blocking a Highway Is Not a Legitimate or Effective Form of Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Blocking highways is dangerous no matter the target of the protester&#8217;s ire. Canadian truckers recently used the same tactic to push back on vaccine mandates, creating a traffic bottleneck on the busiest international crossing on the continent and cutting off some people from their livelihoods. Whether you&#8217;re protesting COVID dictates from the government, climate change, or the issue du jour, consider that your demonstration will not win hearts and minds if it&#8217;s hurting people.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/07\/06\/blocking-a-highway-is-not-a-legitimate-or-effective-form-of-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/07\/06\/blocking-a-highway-is-not-a-legitimate-or-effective-form-of-protest\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blocking highways is dangerous no matter the target of the protester&#8217;s ire. Canadian truckers recently used the same tactic to push back on vaccine mandates, creating a traffic bottleneck on the busiest international crossing on the continent and cutting off some people from their livelihoods. Whether you&#8217;re protesting COVID dictates from the government, climate change, or the issue du jour, consider that your demonstration will not win hearts and minds if it&#8217;s hurting people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1706,941,362],"class_list":["post-8613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-highway","tag-protest","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8614,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}