{"id":1755,"date":"2012-04-19T19:02:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-04-19T19:02:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:02:32","slug":"kfc-taco-bell-and-pizza-huts-owner-is-the-12th-corporation-to-drop-alec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/kfc-taco-bell-and-pizza-huts-owner-is-the-12th-corporation-to-drop-alec\/","title":{"rendered":"KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut&#8217;s Owner Is The 12th Corporation To Drop ALEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yum! Brands, the owner of fast food brands KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut told Color of Change that they will no longer support the American Legislative Exchange Council, the right-wing front group that, until recently, was a driving force behind state voter suppression and \u201cstand your ground\u201d gun laws. Yum!\u2019s decision means a dozen corporations (plus the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) have now dropped the conservative group:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/04\/19\/467264\/kfc-taco-bell-and-pizza-hut-owner-is-the-12th-corporation-to-drop-alec\/\">KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut&#8217;s Owner Is The 12th Corporation To Drop ALEC | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yum! Brands, the owner of fast food brands KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut told Color of Change that they will no longer support the American Legislative Exchange Council, the right-wing front group that, until recently, was a driving force behind state voter suppression and \u201cstand your ground\u201d gun laws. Yum!\u2019s decision means a dozen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[1026,1104,1105,1106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}