{"id":102258,"date":"2013-12-31T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/boston-bans-smoking-in-public-parks\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T18:04:04","slug":"boston-bans-smoking-in-public-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/boston-bans-smoking-in-public-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bans Smoking in Public Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/12\/31\/Boston-approves-ban-on-smoking-in-city-run-parks\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 31, 2013<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The city council tasked park rangers with enforcing the ban. Credit: LoopZilla via Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Boston has banned smoking in city-run parks, joining a growing list of American cities to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Parks and Recreation Commission on Monday approved a ban covering the 251 parks, squares, cemeteries and other spaces run by the Parks and Recreation Department, including Boston Common, the Public Garden and Franklin Park. No one spoke in opposition to the ban.<\/p>\n<p>The ban takes effect immediately and applies to tobacco, marijuana and other \u201clighted or vaporized\u201d substances. Violators face a $250 fine.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Tuesday, December 31, 2013  at  11:51 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/boston-approves-ban-on-smoking-in-public-parks\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Boston Bans Smoking in Public Parks\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartDecember 31, 2013 The city council tasked park rangers with enforcing the ban. Credit: LoopZilla via Flickr Boston has banned smoking in city-run parks, joining a growing list of American cities to do so. The Boston Parks and Recreation Commission on Monday approved a ban covering the 251 parks, squares, cemeteries and other spaces run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":102259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}