{"id":1855,"date":"2017-02-24T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2017-02-24T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:15:26","slug":"constituents-protest-at-closed-fischer-event-news-media-barred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/24\/constituents-protest-at-closed-fischer-event-news-media-barred\/","title":{"rendered":"Constituents protest at closed Fischer event; news media barred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalstar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the Grand Manse in downtown Lincoln Tuesday to protest Sen. Deb Fischer&#8217;s decision not to hold town hall meetings during the current congressional recess.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, inside the building, the news media was barred by the Lincoln Independent Business Association from covering Fischer&#8217;s address to a luncheon meeting.<\/p>\n<p>LIBA luncheon appearances by public officials traditionally have been open to the media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/federal-politics\/protesters-gather-at-closed-fischer-event\/article_b6d1edfa-7025-5a4b-8f9d-91f549da6184.html#utm_source=journalstar.com&amp;utm_campaign=%2Femail-updates%2Feedition%2F&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=B604F23E3DD76DE5CD0FC553E25E333C6B5CE72B\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star: Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the Grand Manse in downtown Lincoln Tuesday to protest Sen. Deb Fischer&#8217;s decision not to hold town hall meetings during the current congressional recess. Meanwhile, inside the building, the news media was barred by the Lincoln Independent Business Association from covering Fischer&#8217;s address to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/24\/constituents-protest-at-closed-fischer-event-news-media-barred\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Constituents protest at closed Fischer event; news media barred<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[8,11,15,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}