
{"id":6353,"date":"2009-07-02T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T16:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2009-07-04T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T19:12:15","slug":"letter-spray-paint-inappropriate-unattractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/07\/02\/letter-spray-paint-inappropriate-unattractive\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Spray paint inappropriate, unattractive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I generally enjoy my walk to and from work in Chapel Hill, particularly this time of year. <\/p>\n<p>However, over the last month or so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed an increasing amount of public and private property marred by large blotches of brown or black spray paint. Upon closer inspection, I found that each of these ugly paint clouds are only covering up fliers that denounce the new Greenbridge condominium development. Plenty of other fliers publicizing everything from concerts to bars remain in all sorts of places all over Carrboro and Chapel Hill; opposition to Greenbridge seems to be singled out for such treatment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I wondered who could be doing this, until one day on my walk I saw an older, bald gentleman in a nice button-down shirt walking in front of me, brazenly spraypainting a town street sign in broad daylight. Who is this guy? Is the Town of Chapel Hill hiring someone to selectively cover up fliers they find politically inconvenient? Or is Greenbridge privately paying this man to protect their image by vandalizing public property? Why are they using spray paint instead of tearing them down?<\/p>\n<p>I understand that these condominiums have a lot of money invested in them, that they have been and continue to be an extremely controversial project. But it is unacceptable to debase our town and cover up the free expression of others just to protect your image. <\/p>\n<p>Charles Ramsey<br \/>\nCarrboro<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Please note that for this and every other story on our site we require you sign comments as you would a letter to the editor. You must also provide us with a valid email address.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally enjoy my walk to and from work in Chapel Hill, particularly this time of year. However, over the last month or so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed an increasing amount of public and private property marred by large blotches of brown or black spray paint. Upon closer inspection, I found that each of these ugly paint&#8230;<\/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-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","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=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6378,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}