
{"id":21078,"date":"2011-09-29T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21078"},"modified":"2011-09-28T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:53:49","slug":"letter-more-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/09\/29\/letter-more-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: More stuff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I read in the Carrboro Visitors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Guide that Carrboro Plaza is completely and diversely occupied, and that the Food Lion there is one of the top-grossing Food Lion groceries in the state. Today, I read in the Sept. 15 <em>Carrboro Citizen<\/em> that Argus Development plans to put, among other things, a large grocery store within shouting distance of Carrboro Plaza. Planner Jack Smyre says that while he recognizes this may be a concern, the new grocery store &#8220;will be larger than the Food Lion and will carry a wider variety of products.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Is anyone else out there outraged by this? What a smug, self-serving, near-sighted justification! As if putting prosperous businesses at risk were justified by the promise of more stuff. (Can you say Walmart?) <\/p>\n<p>And as Erica Eisdorfer so aptly points out (Letters, Sept. 15), we have a wealth of underused and stagnating retail space already. Moreover, since when does Carrboro subscribe to the notion that fields and grand old trees are mere placeholders until something more &#8220;useful&#8221; comes along?<\/p>\n<p>Margret Mueller<br \/>\n<em>Orange County<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I read in the Carrboro Visitors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Guide that Carrboro Plaza is completely and diversely occupied, and that the Food Lion there is one of the top-grossing Food Lion groceries in the state.<\/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-21078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078","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=21078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21082,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078\/revisions\/21082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}