{"id":3689,"date":"2003-11-20T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2003-11-20T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T12:20:44","slug":"its_about_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3689","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s About Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All my friends who live in other places used to laugh at me because I couldn&#8217;t buy liquor on Sundays.  But now that&#8217;s all changed!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/business.bostonherald.com\/businessNews\/business.bg?articleid=840\">Sunday liquor sales passed<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Thursday, November 20, 2003<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts residents won&#8217;t have to live near the state line to buy alcohol on Sunday under a plan lawmakers approved last night. <\/p>\n<p>Tucked in a $100 million economic stimulus package &#8211; along with tax credits for businesses and a one-day &#8220;sales-tax holiday&#8221; set for Aug. 14 &#8211; is a provision allowing year-round, statewide Sunday liquor sales at package and grocery stores. <\/p>\n<p>The move, which upends a long-standing tradition of banning booze sales on the Sabbath, would allow towns to opt out of the idea. Store owners would also have the option. [<a href=\"http:\/\/business.bostonherald.com\/businessNews\/business.bg?articleid=840\">bostonherald.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I can go NYAH NYAH at my parents down in CT.  Even if I can&#8217;t really drink right now.<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston-online.com\/common\/001189.html\">Boston Common<\/a> for the link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my friends who live in other places used to laugh at me because I couldn&#8217;t buy liquor on Sundays. But now that&#8217;s all changed! Sunday liquor sales passed Thursday, November 20, 2003 Massachusetts residents won&#8217;t have to live near the state line to buy alcohol on Sunday under a plan lawmakers approved last night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}