{"id":5903,"date":"2024-05-22T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:58:33","slug":"mask-ban-bill-shot-down-in-north-carolina-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mask-ban-bill-shot-down-in-north-carolina-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask ban bill shot down in North Carolina House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina House voted against a bill that would\u2019ve banned mask-wearing in public Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate passed it last week as part of an effort to crack down on people who wear masks at protests so they can commit crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in the House worried it went too far, saying the law may be unfairly enforced against people who wear masks for health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders in the House and Senate will soon meet to try to iron out a compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina House voted against a bill that would\u2019ve banned mask-wearing in public Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate passed it last week as part of an effort to crack down on people who wear masks at protests so they can commit crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in the House worried it went too far, saying the law may be unfairly enforced against people who wear masks for health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders in the House and Senate will soon meet to try to iron out a compromise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mask-ban-bill-shot-down-in-north-carolina-house\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mask ban bill shot down in North Carolina House<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,259,19,808,1144,309,14,51,143],"class_list":["post-5903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-human-rights","tag-masks","tag-north-carolina","tag-people-with-disabilities","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}