
{"id":15090,"date":"2011-01-06T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15090"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:26:52","slug":"chapel-hill-elementary-school-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/01\/06\/chapel-hill-elementary-school-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapel Hill Elementary School, 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/01\/06\/chapel-hill-elementary-school-1965\/jock-010611\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jock.010611.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jock.010611\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignone size-full wp-image-15091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jock.010611.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jock.010611-113x72.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jock.010611-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jock.010611-360x231.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jock.010611-120x77.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn a brilliant sunny morning 45 years ago, I clambered up to the rooftop of old Chapel Hill High School to capture this view of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill Elementary School and the town under a blanket of white. You can orient yourself by (right to left) the steeples of the University Methodist and University Presbyterian churches and the cupola of the IFC building (then the police station and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153firehouse.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) With desegregation and the merger of CHHS and Lincoln, the school buildings were razed in the mid-\u00e2\u20ac\u212260s, making room for University Square, which itself is now scheduled for a teardown. Irony, irony \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that the wrecking ball will again have its way. I, for one, wish we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d kept those perfectly good buildings right there in the heart of town and turned \u00e2\u20ac\u2122em into community centers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/12\/16\/fun-with-g-pop\/jockmug\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jockmug\" width=\"150\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug-81x113.jpg 81w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug-57x80.jpg 57w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a brilliant sunny morning 45 years ago, I clambered up to the rooftop of old Chapel Hill High School to capture this view of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill Elementary School and the town under a blanket of white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15090"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15107,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090\/revisions\/15107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}