{"id":7427,"date":"2011-04-01T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2011-04-01T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:02:24","slug":"rowdy-crowd-forces-food-services-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/rowdy-crowd-forces-food-services-suspension","title":{"rendered":"Rowdy Crowd Forces Food Services Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Services at the Department of Social Services&#8217; Horseshoe Drive location were suspended for several hours after some people who showed up for assistance reportedly threatened workers.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, an employee received injuries to her hand and had to seek medical treatment, Deputy Director of Social Services Mavis Darling-Hill said.<\/p>\n<p>Darling-Hill said yesterday&#8217;s event indicates that police presence is needed at the site, especially at month\u2019s end when the department sees a hike in clients seeking temporary and permanent food assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Darling-Hill said some of the people who showed up were rude and abusive. She pointed out however that not all clients are uncontrollable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Services workers were threatened when a crowd became unruly, as tends to happen at month\u2019s end when there is a hike in people seeking temporary and permanent food assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[133,23,40],"class_list":["post-7427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-community","tag-food","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}