{"id":60044,"date":"2021-06-20T23:55:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=60044"},"modified":"2021-06-20T23:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:55:13","slug":"pride-problems-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/06\/20\/pride-problems-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Problems in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, tragedy struck in the form of a white pickup truck careening through a fence and into the <strong><em>Wilton Manors Pride <\/em><\/strong>festivities in Fort Lauderdale!&nbsp; It resulted in the death of one person, while another remains hospitalized.&nbsp; Fort Lauderdale Mayor <strong>Dean Trantalis <\/strong>\u2013 an eyewitness to the incident \u2013 called it \u201ca terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community\u201d, adding that \u201cit was deliberate, it was premeditated\u201d.&nbsp; His account was called into question by <strong>Justin Knight<\/strong>, president of the <em>Fort Lauderdale Gay Men\u2019s Chorus<\/em>.&nbsp; Knight claims that not only was the driver a 77-year-old member of the chorus \u201cfamily\u201d (and wearing their Pride tee), so were the two people he hit.&nbsp; The next day, Wilton Manors Mayor <strong>Scott Newton <\/strong>called it \u201ca tragic accident\u201d.&nbsp; An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in nearby Delray Beach, a man was arrested for vandalizing the brand-new <em>LGBTQ Pride Crosswalk<\/em>.&nbsp; Dashcam video shows <strong>Alexander Jerich <\/strong>swerving and burning rubber on the mural\u2026and in broad daylight.&nbsp; He surrendered to police shortly after the incident, and was charged with reckless driving, evidence of prejudice, and criminal mischief over $1,000.&nbsp; Allegedly, the incident occurred during a caravan celebrating <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s birthday.&nbsp; Well, as long as he had a good excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, tragedy struck in the form of a white pickup truck careening through a fence and into the Wilton Manors Pride festivities in Fort Lauderdale!&nbsp; It resulted in the death of one person, while another remains hospitalized.&nbsp; Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis \u2013 an eyewitness to the incident \u2013 called it \u201ca terrorist attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60053,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60044\/revisions\/60053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}