{"id":2628,"date":"2013-03-28T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2013-03-28T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:04:22","slug":"and-the-least-free-state-in-america-is%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2628","title":{"rendered":"And the Least Free State in America, is\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Mason University\u2019s Mercatus Center just released the third edition of their comprehensive \u201cFreedom in the Fifty States\u201d study, ranking <em>&#8220;the American states based on how their policies promote freedom in the fiscal, regulatory, and personal realms.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma took the top five freedom spots, while Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Jersey, California, and New York came in 46th through last place.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Mouse-over a state to see it&#8217;s ranking.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/freedominthe50states.org\/embed\/map\/overall\" width=\"495\" height=\"600\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Mason University\u2019s Mercatus Center just released the third edition of their comprehensive \u201cFreedom in the Fifty States\u201d study, ranking &#8220;the American states based on how their policies promote freedom in the fiscal, regulatory, and personal realms.&#8221; North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma took the top five freedom spots, while Rhode Island, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the Least Free State in America, is\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-ny-state"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}