{"id":7744,"date":"2003-09-29T23:14:22","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T04:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/09\/29\/new-law-passed-to-block-concert-suicide\/"},"modified":"2003-09-29T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T04:14:22","slug":"new-law-passed-to-block-concert-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/09\/new-law-passed-to-block-concert-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"New Law Passed to Block Concert Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">The St. Petersburg city council passed a law Monday designed to scuttle a rock group&#8217;s plans to feature an onstage suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The hard-rock band Hell on Earth had said that a suicide by a terminally ill person would take place during a concert Saturday to raise awareness of right-to-die issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">In response, the city council met Monday morning to unanimously approve an emergency ordinance making it illegal to conduct a suicide for commercial or entertainment purposes, and to host, promote and sell tickets for such an event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;While I still think it&#8217;s a publicity stunt, we still couldn&#8217;t sit idly by and let somebody lose their life,&#8221; council member Bill Foster said.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.msn.com\/news\/article.aspx?news=135666\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Petersburg city council passed a law Monday designed to scuttle a rock group&#8217;s plans to feature an onstage suicide. The hard-rock band Hell on Earth had said that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}