{"id":11038,"date":"2011-12-23T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11038"},"modified":"2011-12-23T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T01:15:15","slug":"we-are-losing-our-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11038","title":{"rendered":"We Are Losing Our Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/reasontv\/2011\/12\/23\/reason-tv-how-to-save-a-treehouse-from-a-zoning-board\/#more-395548\">Big Government<\/a>\u00a0posted a story today about U.S. Army Specialist Mark Grapin, who lives in Fairfax County, Virginia. He recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq and decided to build a treehouse for his sons. The Fairfax Country Zoning Board demanded that he tear down the treehouse after an anonymous complaint.\u00a0After Specialist Grapin went\u00a0to the media, an online petition was started, and Specialist Grapin was able to convince the Zoning Board to allow him to leave the treehouse up for five years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad he got to keep the treehouse for five years, but it bothers me that one person\u00a0might have stopped his children from the fun of playing in their treehouse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=76b1392f-174f-45a8-8e1e-6ecaa2cc6849\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Government\u00a0posted a story today about U.S. Army Specialist Mark Grapin, who lives in Fairfax County, Virginia. He recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq and decided to build a treehouse for his sons. The Fairfax Country Zoning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1628,1629,1631,1413,1630],"class_list":["post-11038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fairfax-county-virginia","tag-mark-grapin","tag-treehouse","tag-virginia","tag-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11039,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions\/11039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}