{"id":3365,"date":"2016-03-29T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2016-03-29T18:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:27:01","slug":"shooting-your-state-in-the-foot-or-whos-your-best-friend-ctd-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/03\/29\/shooting-your-state-in-the-foot-or-whos-your-best-friend-ctd-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Your State in the Foot; or, Who\u2019s your best friend?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina, who called a special session just to implement their &#8220;religious liberty&#8221; law, is now feeling the heat, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/ncs-mccrory-dismisses-criticism-new-discrimination-law\" target=\"_blank\">documented<\/a> by Steve Benen @ <em><strong>MaddowBlog<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the governor gets up to speed on the specifics of the law he created, he should also prepare for some economic fallout. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/247490\/cuomo-bans-non-essential-state-travel-to-north-carolina\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">city and state<\/a> of New York, for example, announced yesterday that all non-essential state travel to North Carolina has been scrapped because of the new measure that \u201ccreates the grounds for discrimination against LGBT people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, as we discussed yesterday, film director Rob Reiner has said he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/rob-reiner-calls-filming-boycott-north-carolina-over-anti-lgbt-law\">won\u2019t produce<\/a> projects in the state until the measure is repealed, and he urged others in the entertainment industry to follow his lead.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN, which was eyeing North Carolina as a possible host of the summer X Games, may now look elsewhere, and the same is true for the NBA, which planned to hold the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte, but which may now seek a new venue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina, who called a special session just to implement their &#8220;religious liberty&#8221; law, is now feeling the heat, as documented by Steve Benen @ MaddowBlog: While the governor gets up to speed on the specifics of the law he created, he should also prepare for some economic fallout. The \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/03\/29\/shooting-your-state-in-the-foot-or-whos-your-best-friend-ctd-12\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}