{"id":7728,"date":"2004-03-12T13:56:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T13:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/a_million_austins.html"},"modified":"2004-03-12T13:56:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T13:56:39","slug":"a_million_austins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/a_million_austins.html","title":{"rendered":"A million Austins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.org\/dsp_article.asp?art_id=6275\">Shawn Macomber on the Austin PP boycott and other signs of the times<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eventually concrete supplier Ramon Carrasquillo broke the picket line and poured the foundation this January, mostly because his company, Rainbow Materials, Inc. was drowning under $17 million of debt. Other subcontractors signed on, but only on the condition that Planned Parenthood conceal their identities. Trucks now pull up to the site with black tape over their logos. Planned Parenthood heralded this as a great victory for choice, even posting pictures of &#8220;beautiful concrete&#8221; on the website<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Macomber on the Austin PP boycott and other signs of the times Eventually concrete supplier Ramon Carrasquillo broke the picket line and poured the foundation this January, mostly because his company, Rainbow Materials, Inc. was drowning under $17 million of debt. 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