{"id":1321,"date":"2024-09-21T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T18:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2024-09-21T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T19:51:45","slug":"north-carolinians-call-on-rep-ross-for-public-statement-on-closing-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/2024\/09\/21\/north-carolinians-call-on-rep-ross-for-public-statement-on-closing-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolinians call on Rep. Ross for public statement on closing Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"1325\" src=\"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Vigil-at-Rep.-Ross-office-092024-850x638.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:#000000\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Rep. Ross&#8217; staff listen as Margaret Toman of NCSTN describes the shameful and counter-productive history of the Guantanamo prison.<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>North Carolinians rallied outside Rep. Deborah Ross&#8217; district office in Raleigh to call on the Congresswoman to break her silence on Guantanamo.  Since her election to a safely Democratic Congressional seat in 2020, Rep. Ross has declined several opportunities, including in 2021 when she refused to join 75 colleagues in a letter calling on President Biden to speedily close the Guantanamo prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protesters, most of whom were Ross constituents, called on Ross for a public statement on the need to close the prison, and for pressure on the Biden Administration to accelerate the transfer out of prisoners cleared for release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolinians rallied outside Rep. Deborah Ross&#8217; district office in Raleigh to call on the Congresswoman to break her silence on Guantanamo. Since her election to a safely Democratic Congressional seat in 2020, Rep. Ross has declined several opportunities, including in 2021 when she refused to join 75 colleagues in a letter calling on President&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}