{"id":3782,"date":"2013-11-18T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/18\/ranchers-protest-sees-joan-jett-switching-floats-for-thanksgiving-parade\/"},"modified":"2013-11-18T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T06:43:14","slug":"ranchers-protest-sees-joan-jett-switching-floats-for-thanksgiving-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/18\/ranchers-protest-sees-joan-jett-switching-floats-for-thanksgiving-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranchers protest sees Joan Jett switching floats for Thanksgiving parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/3\/38\/Joan_Jett_Performance_2013.jpg\/220px-Joan_Jett_Performance_2013.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"237\" \/><br \/>The punk icon was due to perform on a float representing the state at the annual Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade but South Dakota ranchers protested against her inclusion, stating that as a vegetarian, she was a critic of their line of work.  <!--more-->  &#8220;When we learned that about Miss Jett, we were rightly concerned about her representing South Dakota and a state that is so heavily reliant on agriculture and livestock production to drive our economy,&#8221; said Jodiae Anderson of the South Dakota Cattlemen&#8217;s Association, via CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Jett has now said that she will move to another float for the parade, which takes place on November 28. &#8220;I&#8217;ve decided to switch from South Dakota to another float because people&#8217;s political agendas were getting in the way of what should be a purely entertainment driven event,&#8221; said Jett. &#8220;I will remain focused on entertaining the millions of people watching, who will be celebrating a great American tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joan Jett And The Blackhearts released their new album &#8216;Unvarnished&#8217; earlier this autumn. Dave Grohl guests on the album &#8211; Jett&#8217;s first release since 2006&#8217;s &#8216;Sinner&#8217; &#8211; as does Against Me!&#8217;s Laura Jane Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The punk icon was due to perform on a float representing the state at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}