{"id":4015,"date":"2015-09-27T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T00:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2015-09-27T20:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T00:04:51","slug":"freedom-rally-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/27\/freedom-rally-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A Freedom Rally Thank-You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom Rally is always a festive event and this year was no exception.  We had a great time, and we&#8217;d like to thank everyone who helped out.  In particular, we&#8217;d like to show our appreciation for<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 15 people who came to our tent and tabled during the weekend;\n<li>The 93 people who signed <a href=\"http:\/\/masscann.org\/uncategorized\/bay-state-repeal-files-first-draft-of-initiative-petition\/\">MassCann&#8217;s petition<\/a> to &#8220;permit the cultivation, distribution, possession, or use of marijuana by persons of age 21 and older&#8221; (aka ballot petition B);\n<li>The 66 people who signed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passmassamendment.org\/\">PassMassAmendment&#8217;s petition<\/a>: &#8220;Corporations are not people&#8221; and &#8220;Money is not speech&#8221; (aka ballot petition R);\n<li>The 21 people who signed our own petition opposing <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/189\/House\/H2487\">H.2487<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/189\/House\/H2606\">H.2606<\/a>, extending &#8220;Hollywood tax credit&#8221; subsidies to video game production companies;\n<li>The 10 people who registered to vote; and\n<li>Everyone who signed up for our mailing list, and\/or volunteered to help out at future Mass Pirates events.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you all, we couldn&#8217;t do it without you!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/freedom-rally-2-edited.png\" alt=\"Pirates at Freedom Rally (2)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/freedom-rally-2-edited.png 640w, https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/freedom-rally-2-edited-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom Rally is always a festive event and this year was no exception. We had a great time, and we&#8217;d like to thank&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":4013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A #FreedomRally Thank-You","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-slider","category-out-and-about"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/freedom-rally-1-edit.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-12L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}