
{"id":5388,"date":"2009-04-02T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2009-04-02T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:12:50","slug":"mayor-floats-modest-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/04\/02\/mayor-floats-modest-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor floats modest proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of OrangePolitics.org were treated to an April Fool\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prank courtesy of Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have been thinking more and more lately about how inappropriate the name \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCarrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is for a town that is so focused on alternatives to the single occupant motor vehicle,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Chilton wrote on the popular blog. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I mean, I realize the town is named after Julian Shakespeare Carr, rather than the ubiquitous vehicle of the 20th century, but still . . . having our town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name begin with that object that we are working so hard against just makes no sense to me.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 So if I may, I would like to offer up a proposed new name for our town \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one which will more properly reflect our town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental ethic:  Bikeboro. We would have to get the legislature to pass a bill amending our town charter, but I think they might go along.<\/p>\n<p>What do you guys think?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of OrangePolitics.org were treated to an April Fool\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prank courtesy of Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have been thinking more and more lately about how inappropriate the name \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCarrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is for a town that is so focused on alternatives to the single occupant motor vehicle,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Chilton wrote on the popular blog. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I mean, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","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=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}