{"id":334800,"date":"2026-07-09T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334800\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:54:08","slug":"opinion-desantiss-stop-woke-college-speech-code-falls-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334800\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | DeSantis&#8217;s &#8216;Stop WOKE&#8217; college speech code falls in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6OB4IFVJR5E5DPUNYDUISZNHNA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Florida was the epicenter of America\u2019s backlash to wokeness, the progressive frenzy on race and gender enforced by social media mobs around 2020. But the Sunshine State lost sight of constitutional guardrails when it tried to fight progressive excess with state-backed conformity. This week, a federal appeals court invalidated legislation signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in 2022 seeking to ban professors from espousing woke ideas at public universities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida was the epicenter of America\u2019s backlash to wokeness, the progressive frenzy on race and gender enforced by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-334800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}