{"id":4646,"date":"2014-12-03T09:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2014-12-03T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:06:53","slug":"proud-chicken-advocate-chimes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/12\/proud-chicken-advocate-chimes-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud chicken advocate chimes in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent article\u00a0you posted in the Last Best News, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2014\/11\/prairie-lights-as-predicted-chickens-coming-home-to-roost\/\">As Predicted, Chickens Coming Home to Roost<\/a>\u201d (Nov. 30, 2014), I take umbrage with your allegation that Billings City Council members were duped into supporting the Backyard Chicken Ordinance passed in August of 2012.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a newly elected representative on the City Council at that time, representing the good and honest folk of Ward 3, I take great pride in my advocacy and vocal support of the equal rights of all chickens.\u00a0 Whether urban, rural, pro-egg laying or anti-egg laying, plucked or unplucked, it is my adamant belief that ALL chickens are entitled to equal protection under the law.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly articulated within the Mission and the By-Laws of the Montana Society of the Equalization of Longneck Gizzard Breasted Tail Quailing. In the vernacular of the groovy people, better recognized as simply MSE-LGBTQ.<\/p>\n<p>In the future I would expect an enlightened journalist such as you would be less cynical and more supportive of the City of Billings, and the Greater Yellowstone Equal System.\u00a0 We are a city on the move as we continue on the path to Agricultural Acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>With all due respect,<\/p>\n<p>Becky Bird, council member,\u00a0Ward 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent article\u00a0you posted in the Last Best News, \u201cAs Predicted, Chickens Coming Home to Roost\u201d (Nov. 30, 2014), I take umbrage with your allegation that Billings City Council members were duped into supporting the Backyard Chicken Ordinance passed in August of 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1721,830,86],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-backyard-chickens","tag-becky-bird","tag-billings-city-council","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}