{"id":16860,"date":"2025-12-17T20:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/we-can-reclaim-our-streets-without-criminalizing-homelessness\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:21:03","slug":"we-can-reclaim-our-streets-without-criminalizing-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/we-can-reclaim-our-streets-without-criminalizing-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"We can reclaim our streets without criminalizing homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can make the tragedy of street homelessness a thing of the past, with compassion, not coercion.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/criminal-justice\/5651474-police-compassion-homelessness-san-antonio\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can make the tragedy of street homelessness a thing of the past, with compassion, not coercion.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}