{"id":8819,"date":"2024-08-07T13:09:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/fired-san-antonio-poet-laureate-sues-the-city-over-his-removal\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T18:09:32","slug":"fired-san-antonio-poet-laureate-sues-the-city-over-his-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/fired-san-antonio-poet-laureate-sues-the-city-over-his-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired San Antonio poet laureate sues the city over his removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Celebrated Chicano writer Nephtal\u00ed De Le\u00f3n has sued the City of San Antonio and the director of its Arts &amp; Culture Department, alleging they violated his free speech rights by firing him as poet laureate. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Antonio, comes after city officials removed\u00a0De Le\u00f3n last summer for sharing a poem on his personal Facebook page that included a\u00a0Chicano slang word often considered a derogatory term for Black people. De Le\u00f3n\u00a0argues the city and\u00a0Arts &amp; Culture Department Director\u00a0Krystal Jones violated his First Amendment rights by retaliating against him for posting the poem, a eulogy for friend and educator Roberto \u201cCintli\u201d Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated Chicano writer Nephtal\u00ed De Le\u00f3n has sued the City of San Antonio and the director of its Arts &amp; Culture Department, alleging they violated his free speech rights by firing him as poet laureate. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Antonio, comes after city officials removed\u00a0De Le\u00f3n last summer for sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}