{"id":92,"date":"2007-01-05T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/05\/wondering\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T19:08:40","slug":"wondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/wondering\/","title":{"rendered":"Wondering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno, maybe a big story fell through and they had to think of something quick, but the front of today&#8217;s Life section of the N&#038;O&#8211;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/105\/story\/528927.html\">Seven Wonders of the Triangle<\/a>&#8211;was l-a-m-\u00c3\u00a9. Their picks: RTP, Cameron Indoor Stadium, that damn Acorn in Raleigh, Cameron Village (note obsession with things named Cameron) and a few others. (I kinda agree with Crook&#8217;s Corner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookscorner.com\/\">Shrimp &#038; Grits<\/a>, but  I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s a classic <em>wonder<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of the short descriptions of the wonders (wherein the paper of record  does snark, I think):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Acorn<br \/>\nBig and fun and metal and hoisted by a crane on New Year&#8217;s Eve. . .<\/p>\n<p>RTP<br \/>\n. . .RTP is populated by all sorts of wonderfully smart people who tinker with test tubes and microbes and whatnot. . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feeling icky right about now is perfectly natural. Of course, this is all a part of a tie-in with the odd  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new7wonders.com\/\">re-vote on the seven wonders<\/a> project thing. So, the <em>N&#038;O<\/em> wants to know what your list of seven wonders. Dean Dome anyone?<br \/>\nJot yours down if you&#8217;d like. Here&#8217;s a few of mine off the top of my head:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catscradle.com\/\">Cat&#8217;s Cradle<\/a> (Original lineup Sebadoh&#8217;s coming)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrboro.com\/clyde\/\">Clyde Jones&#8217; yard<\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Cameron Avenue around the Old Well and Polk Place (my Cameron vote).<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Eno River State Park<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Merritt&#8217;s Store Large BLT<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Maybe NC Botanical Garden, Duke Gardens, JC Raulston Arboretum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno, maybe a big story fell through and they had to think of something quick, but the front of today&#8217;s Life section of the N&#038;O&#8211;The Seven Wonders of the Triangle&#8211;was l-a-m-\u00c3\u00a9. Their picks: RTP, Cameron Indoor Stadium, that damn Acorn in Raleigh, Cameron Village (note obsession with things named Cameron) and a few others. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}