{"id":1547717,"date":"2024-03-11T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=f11326f9d2fb85bcfed89a3fa7a6451f"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:11:45","slug":"cities-are-quietly-waging-war-on-marginalized-food-truck-and-street-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/11\/cities-are-quietly-waging-war-on-marginalized-food-truck-and-street-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities Are Quietly Waging War on Marginalized Food Truck and Street Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Married business partners Theslet Benoir and Clemene Bastien immigrated from Haiti and settled in Parksley, Virginia, in 2005. They followed the law when they opened a brick-and-mortar store and expanded with the town&rsquo;s first food truck in June 2023. Local officials should have celebrated the couple&rsquo;s entrepreneurial spirit. Instead, they punished it: A Town Council member came to the restaurant...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/cities-are-quietly-waging-war-on-marginalized-food-truck-and-street-vendors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/cities-are-quietly-waging-war-on-marginalized-food-truck-and-street-vendors\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City leaders are clamping down on small entrepreneurs to protect the profits of their wealthy business allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[879,1077,36979,15192,75876,75877,4721,17370,3684],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547718,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547717\/revisions\/1547718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}