{"id":2595,"date":"2015-06-30T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2015-06-30T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:53:35","slug":"op-ed-column-from-dave-mathewson-listen-to-congress-and-leave-model-airplane-hobbyists-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2015\/06\/30\/op-ed-column-from-dave-mathewson-listen-to-congress-and-leave-model-airplane-hobbyists-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed Column from Dave Mathewson: \u201cListen to Congress and leave model airplane hobbyists alone\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Model Aeronautics asks the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to listen to Congress and leave model flying alone.<\/p>\n<p>AMA Executive Director Dave Mathewson provided his insight and opinion over this topic in a recent op-ed column. In the column he discusses the newly proposed rules from the FAA, specifically the FAA\u2019s interpretation of the \u201cSpecial Rule for Model Aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click <a title=\"here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/06\/27\/faa-aircraft-models-hobbyists-ama-column\/71006100\/\">here<\/a> to read the full column by Dave Mathewson on USA Today\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Model Aeronautics asks the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to listen to Congress and leave model flying alone. AMA Executive Director Dave Mathewson provided his insight and opinion over this topic in a recent op-ed column. In the column he discusses the newly proposed rules from the FAA, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002422,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-faa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}