{"id":51402,"date":"2019-08-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-second-class-citizens\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T11:00:00","slug":"opinion-second-class-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-second-class-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Second-class citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/steep-creek-trail-to-close-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\">July 10 article<\/a> and subsequent opinion piece on closure of the Steep Creek trail out at the Mendenhall Glacier. After reading the op-ed I went to the glacier and asked a National Forest Service ranger if it was true that the trail was closed to the public (like Juneau residents) but being used by private tour groups (cruise ship visitors on a shore tour). I respect the need to protect the bears, but who will protect Juneau residents from being made second-class citizens in their own town? Looks like the cruise ship folks get downtown AND the run of the glacier for the nicest half of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Fleming,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Juneau<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On closure of the Steep Creek trail out at the Mendenhall Glacier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-51402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51402"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}