
{"id":18850,"date":"2011-06-09T12:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=18850"},"modified":"2011-09-08T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:00:21","slug":"singin-in-the-rain-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/06\/09\/singin-in-the-rain-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Singin&#8217; in the Rain, 2011"},"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\/06\/09\/singin-in-the-rain-2011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1KWords060911.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1KWords060911.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1KWords060911-113x80.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1KWords060911-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWell, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if our rain dancer is actually singing, but she sure is striking a Gene Kelly pose. J. Nicholas \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nick\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kepple, one of my intrepid student photographers, captured this free spirit during the Friday, May 27 frogstrangler that deluged the West Franklin-Kenan-Mallette intersections with rushing rainwater. Nick says she told him she is a resident of the neighborhood and that her name is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sara Bloo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adding, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the greatest day of my life!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c proving that some folks have a knack for making a good thing out of what many stalled-out motorists found to be a dreadful situation. And, no, the local constabulary didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to mind Sara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebration.<\/p>\n<p><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>Well, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if our rain dancer is actually singing, but she sure is striking a Gene Kelly pose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18850","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\/18850","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=18850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20722,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions\/20722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}