{"id":6113,"date":"2012-08-30T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2012-08-30T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T15:00:20","slug":"moo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2012\/08\/moo\/","title":{"rendered":"MOO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MILLCover.small_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MILLCover.small_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MILLCover.small\" width=\"80\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6115\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCowParade North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s three-month exhibition kicked off Aug. 18 with a roundup in Durham in which more than 80 life-sized fiberglass cows hand-painted by local artists came together. <!--more-->The event was truly a spectacle, with the colorful, whimsical bovines lined up for viewers to enjoy before they were dispersed to areas throughout the Triangle, where they will remain through early December.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven of those cows came to Chapel Hill, and within 24 hours, one of them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Alexander Moo-lian Bow-vine, pictured on the cover of this publication \u00e2\u20ac\u201c was vandalized, stripped of his distinctive Carolina blue-and-white bowtie. Shockingly, not a week later, a second cow, Cow House, was also damaged, knocked on its side by four vandals, two whom were caught by campus police. Both of the vandalized cows had been set to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153graze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the UNC campus \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Alexander Moo-lian near the Morehead Planetarium and Cow House on McCorkle Place. <\/p>\n<p>The worst part of these acts is not the simple destruction of beautiful pieces of art lovingly crafted by local artists, but rather the attack on pieces intended for a charitable cause. The cows are set to be auctioned off for the benefit of N.C. Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hospital in January \u00e2\u20ac\u201c something the vandals hopefully were unaware of when they made their attacks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope the remaining bovines are able to continue to graze undisturbed. In the meantime, be sure to check them out for yourself, as they truly are a joy to see. Visit cowparadenc.com for details. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cSusan Dickson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover photo by Alicia Stemper<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CowParade North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s three-month exhibition kicked off Aug. 18 with a roundup in Durham in which more than 80 life-sized fiberglass cows hand-painted by local artists came together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}