{"id":2092,"date":"2010-05-13T03:39:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2010-05-13T03:39:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T07:39:18","slug":"washington-county-town-draws-attention-for-english-only-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/13\/washington-county-town-draws-attention-for-english-only-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington County town draws attention for &#8220;English only&#8221; law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nyregion\/13towns.html?hp\">New York Times is profiling the town<\/a> of Jackson in Washington County, where local officials have designated the community as an &#8220;English-only&#8221; area for all official business.<\/p>\n<p>Writer Peter Applebome calls the community &#8220;New York\u2019s small version of Arizona in the immigration wars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor too long, the federal government has shirked its duty by not  passing English as the official language of the United States,\u201d said [Roger]  Meyer, 76, a Town Council member and retiree who runs Chains Unlimited,  a sawmill and  chain saw and logging supply company. \u201cSo seeing as this  law couldn\u2019t be passed from the top down, I felt I\u2019d start a  grass-roots movement to try to get it passed from the bottom up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law designates English as the town\u2019s official written and spoken  language, \u201cto be used in all official meetings and business conducted by  the elected officials and their appointees.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is profiling the town of Jackson in Washington County, where local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}