{"id":185633,"date":"2015-09-24T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=185633"},"modified":"2015-09-24T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:19:25","slug":"peaceful-activists-under-attack-for-living-off-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/peaceful-activists-under-attack-for-living-off-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful activists under attack for living off the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On most days, downtown San Luis is a quiet place. The town, the oldest in Colorado and\u00a0seat of Costilla County, is just a short drive from the New Mexico border. Last week though, it was anything but calm. A crowded county commission meeting that drew\u00a0impassioned speeches spilled out into the street, and two groups formed. One, made up of long-time residents, chanted &#8220;we support the police.&#8221; Members of another, comprised of mostly newer residents that live off the grid, shouted about\u00a0constitutional rights and filmed the scene as police pushed them down the block.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"WN_d4tBoPbg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Costilla County Sheriff&#039;s Exposed Violating  Free Speech in San Luis, CO - Video by Alex Ansary\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WN_d4tBoPbg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Turn around or you&#8217;re going to get\u00a0tased,&#8221; one officer says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t want to jail you guys,&#8221; another adds.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was the public\u00a0culmination of a feud over land use regulations\u00a0and much more that&#8217;s been simmering beneath\u00a0the surface of local government in the southern reaches of the San Luis Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/news\/story\/costilla-county-tempers-flare-fight-over-how-live\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On most days, downtown San Luis is a quiet place. The town, the oldest in Colorado and\u00a0seat of Costilla County, is just a short drive from the New Mexico border. Last week though, it was anything but calm. A crowded county commission meeting that drew\u00a0impassioned speeches spilled out into the street, and two groups formed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185633","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\/185633","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}