
{"id":19931,"date":"2011-07-28T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=19931"},"modified":"2011-07-28T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:24:36","slug":"letter-meter-man-overzealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/07\/28\/letter-meter-man-overzealous\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Meter man overzealous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a balmy Saturday morning in Chapel Hill, a relaxed time for farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 markets and yard sales. Several of us had parked along Kenan Street for a very interesting sale in the historic building on the corner. If there were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no parking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d signs, I certainly didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see them. And even if there were, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Saturday and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a yard sale, for God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake. While we were inside, an overzealous meter man gleefully wrote out $50 tickets and posted them on a dozen different windshields. If he had done the small-town considerate thing, he would have come inside and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey, folks, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to have to move your cars.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I have seen policemen do this several times at the Chapel Hill Public Library when cars were parked illegally at book sales. But, no, this guy\u00c2\u00a0saw no reason to be decent about it. Most of us were senior citizens on very fixed incomes and paying that ticket will represent a real hardship for us. One thing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for sure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it would never have happened in Carrboro, where even the\u00c2\u00a0parking-enforcement people are good neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Perry Deane Young<br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a balmy Saturday morning in Chapel Hill, a relaxed time for farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 markets and yard sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931","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=19931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20012,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions\/20012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}