{"id":18303,"date":"2014-09-29T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18303"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:41:01","slug":"ranger-curt-vote-yes-on-2-to-stop-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/09\/29\/ranger-curt-vote-yes-on-2-to-stop-litter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranger Curt: Vote Yes on 2 to Stop Litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Elizabeth St. John for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elizabethann.stjohn\/posts\/10202639444326569\" title=\"Elizabeth St. John's post\" target=\"_blank\">posting this on her Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFormer Massachusetts Chief Park Ranger Curt Rudge explains why it&#8217;s so important to vote Yes on Question 2 on Nov. 4 to stop bottle litter in Massachusetts and expand the Bottle Bill. Big beverage companies are spending over $5 million to say things are fine the way they are&#8211;but Ranger Curt has seen bottles without a deposit on them from sports drinks, iced tea, and water are piling up as litter in our beautiful state. He&#8217;s seen the damage this litter does to our parks. That&#8217;s why we need to vote Yes on Question 2 on November 4. (30 seconds)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/T0Iom5hb3Ig?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>As on who lives on a busy rural road, I can attest to what Ranger Curt has to say.  The litter I see at the edges of my property has few returnables in it.  What little there is is scavenged by people who can make a few cents returning it.  The rest just hangs around as litter.  I am not about to be the trash collector for the clods who throw this stuff out their windows.<\/p>\n<p>I have been tempted to post the following sign, but I know that would just escalate the war.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BewareTheTrashMonster-787x1024.png\" alt=\"Beware The Trash Monster\" width=\"95%\"  class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BewareTheTrashMonster-787x1024.png 787w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BewareTheTrashMonster-115x150.png 115w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BewareTheTrashMonster-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Elizabeth St. John for posting this on her Facebook page. Former Massachusetts Chief Park Ranger Curt Rudge explains why it&#8217;s so important to vote Yes on Question 2 on Nov. 4 to stop bottle litter in Massachusetts and expand the Bottle Bill. Big beverage companies are spending over $5 million to say things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18307,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions\/18307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}