{"id":1695,"date":"2011-09-26T18:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2011-09-26T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:03:52","slug":"local-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Local Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really feel like anyone named &#8220;Wiener&#8221; should have more sense than to thrust himself into (expose himself to? begin blindly groping around in?) legislation relating to nudity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps it should not be a surprise that San Francisco does not have a law against being naked in public, nor that a small, unselfconscious segment of the city\u2019s residents regularly exercise that right. A proposed law would put some restrictions on public nudity in San Francisco, and a \u201cNude-In\u201d on Saturday became a tourist attraction. \u201cThis is about body acceptance, not politics,\u201d the organizer said.<\/p>\n<p>That tiny minority was joined this weekend in the autumn fog and cold by unclothed sympathizers at a \u201cNude-In.\u201d One of their objectives was to draw attention to a proposed law \u2014 introduced by Scott Wiener, a city supervisor \u2014 that would prohibit nudity in restaurants and require unclad people to put a towel or other material down before sitting bare-bottomed on benches or other public seats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/26\/us\/san-francisco-nudity-restrictions-provoke-the-nakedly-ambitious.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/26\/us\/san-francisco-nudity-restrictions-provoke-the-nakedly-ambitious.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unless there&#8217;s been a marked engorgement in the public nudity rates since we left San Francisco, this isn&#8217;t a real problem and it doesn&#8217;t require legislation. Wiener should withdraw this bill from the body politic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really feel like anyone named &#8220;Wiener&#8221; should have more sense than to thrust himself into (expose himself to? begin blindly groping around in?) legislation relating to nudity. Perhaps it should not be a surprise that San Francisco does not have a law against being naked in public, nor that a small, unselfconscious segment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}