{"id":91301,"date":"2020-04-04T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91301"},"modified":"2020-04-04T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T12:24:32","slug":"the-state-calling-south-carolina-unique-governor-mcmaster-resists-calls-to-issue-state-stay-at-home-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91301","title":{"rendered":"(The State) Calling South Carolina \u2018unique,\u2019 Governor McMaster resists calls to issue state stay-at-home order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Henry McMaster continued to resist the idea of issuing a stay-at-home order after he was peppered with questions at a Friday news conference about why he chooses to issue incremental orders closing businesses and restricting residents\u2019 movement while refusing a broader rule.<\/p>\n<p>The questions came as more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article241743076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener noreferrer\">40 other states have issued broader <\/a>shelter-in-place orders.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina is the only state in the southeast that has not issued one yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe measures we have taken are both mandatory and voluntary about staying home,\u201d McMaster said on Friday. \u201cWe are taking a deliberate approach. Our state is not like everyone else\u2019s state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article241760891.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gov. McMaster said Friday he has repeatedly urged South Carolinians to stay home, making an order unnecessary. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IMYGWQLT75\">https:\/\/t.co\/IMYGWQLT75<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The State Newspaper (@thestate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thestate\/status\/1246198572074311680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Henry McMaster continued to resist the idea of issuing a stay-at-home order after he was peppered with questions at a Friday news conference about why he chooses to issue incremental orders closing businesses and restricting residents\u2019 movement while refusing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91301\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,104,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-health-medicine","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91304,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91301\/revisions\/91304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}