{"id":57904,"date":"2019-03-01T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57904"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:08:07","slug":"lake-erie-now-has-the-legal-rights-of-a-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/03\/01\/lake-erie-now-has-the-legal-rights-of-a-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie now has the legal rights of a person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After witnessing toxic algae blooms for years, along with other threats to their drinking water, the residents of Toledo, Ohio, finally voted in favor of a measure that grants Lake Erie the legal rights of a human being.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-one percent of voters in Tuesday&#8217;s special election voted in favor of Lake Erie&#8217;s Bill of Rights, which allows residents to take legal action against entities that violate the lake&#8217;s rights to &#8220;flourish and naturally evolve&#8221; without interference.<\/p>\n<p>Toledoans for Safe Water led a years-long campaign to convince voters that their city&#8217;s charter must be amended to ensure that the &#8220;environmental burden&#8221; carried by the lake, which provides drinking water to 12 million Americans and Canadians, must be reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/lake-erie-bill-of-rights-2630261411.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/lake-erie-bill-of-rights-2630261411.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After witnessing toxic algae blooms for years, along with other threats to their drinking water, the residents of Toledo, Ohio, finally voted in favor of a measure that grants Lake Erie the legal rights of a human being.\u00a0 Sixty-one percent of voters in Tuesday&#8217;s special election voted in favor of Lake Erie&#8217;s Bill of Rights, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}