{"id":2151,"date":"2010-07-04T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2010-07-04T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:24:41","slug":"bp-us-government-suspends-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2151\/bp-us-government-suspends-first-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"BP, US Government Suspends First Amendment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uXsmLMV1CrM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uXsmLMV1CrM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>July 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p>As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials\u2014working with BP\u2014who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 4, 2010 As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BP, US Government Suspends First Amendment? 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