{"id":1625848,"date":"2022-08-29T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625848"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:04:43","slug":"the-libs-are-coming-after-your-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-libs-are-coming-after-your-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Libs Are Coming After Your Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-libs-are-coming-after-your-lawns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/\">Culture<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Washington Post attacks the concept of the lawn<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tLos Angeles &#8216;water police&#8217; inspector Damon Ayala \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/washington-free-beacon-staff\/\" title=\"Posts by Washington Free Beacon Staff\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Washington Free Beacon Staff<\/a> \u2022 August 29, 2022 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> in a Wednesday story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2022\/08\/24\/lawns-and-replacement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked<\/a> the concept of lawns as problematic amid global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Post-World War II, reporter Dan Zak writes, lawns started to signal &#8220;privilege&#8221; and &#8220;power.&#8221; Now, though, &#8220;the planet has accelerated its revolt against us,&#8221; leading to an &#8220;anti-lawn&#8221; movement that sees lawns as &#8220;waste,&#8221; &#8220;disregard,&#8221; and &#8220;zombie Boomerism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story comes as employees of Los Angeles&#8217;s Department of Water and Power, nicknamed &#8220;the water police,&#8221; patrol the streets to enforce city water restrictions, particularly on &#8220;lush, green lawns, maintained with automatic sprinklers,&#8221; AFP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220718-water-police-patrol-drought-hit-los-angeles-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawns are just the latest American tradition to be criticized in a left-wing paper. The <em>Post<\/em> in 2020 ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2020\/10\/18\/star-spangled-banner-racist-national-anthem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> that said the national anthem is racist because a little-heard verse criticizes slaves who fought for the British in the War of 1812. The <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> that same year ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/language-race-systemic-racism-tipping-point-picnic--20200801.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> that said picnics are racist.<\/p>\n<p>Zak admits that lawns will likely remain popular, writing, &#8220;You throw a football on them, you picnic on them, you lean and loaf on them.&#8221; But activists say that young people are moving away from the concept of a lawn, with musician and activist Mel Bryant saying that &#8220;it&#8217;s attached to a more old-school, boomer generation of the idea of what an American life is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture Washington Post attacks the concept of the lawn  Los Angeles &#8216;water police&#8217; inspector Damon Ayala \/ Getty Images  Washington Free Beacon Staff \u2022 August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}