{"id":314,"date":"2005-02-22T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=314"},"modified":"2005-02-22T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T23:09:22","slug":"wicked-repainting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wicked-repainting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Repainting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was walking down the street after having visited with my ole poet buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/external-search\/104-6940271-0078357?field-keywords=ann+deagon&#038;mode=blended&#038;tag=mozilla-20&#038;sourceid=Mozilla-search\">Ann Deagon<\/a>, I passed <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=wicked%20burrito&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;c2coff=1&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wn\">the Number One Chapel Hill Downtown Eyesore. <\/a>The Wicked Burrito was not a great place when it opened. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcarolinatravels.com\/chapelhill\/photoalbum\/wickedburitto_jpg_view.htm\">The outside paint job was ugly, tacky and unappealing<\/a>. But then the place was abandoned by the chain that owns it. It sat idle and fading and breaking with rusting iron rails for years.<br \/>\nThe owners, <a href=\"http:\/\/hospitalityguild.com\/Financial\/Restaurants\/Lone_Star.htm\">Lone Star Steak House and Salon<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=star\">[STAR],<\/a> refused to relet the building prefering to let it sit and decay.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northcarolinatravels.com\/chapelhill\/photoalbum\/wickedburitto_tm.jpg\" alt=\"faded wicked glory\" align=right \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com\/orange\/10-574956.html\">Finally the Town took notice and various threats were made<\/a>.<br \/>\nBut today the owners took action. The building (a former gas station in better times) was surrounded by painters.<br \/>\nI struck up a conversation and learned that the poor painters had spent the morning matching the old tacky multi-color paint job. This afternoon they start stripping and painting. Soon instead of fading decaying tackiness, we will have bright and shiny tackiness.<br \/>\nI am trying to decide which is worse. I guess it won&#8217;t just be conjecture soon. I&#8217;ll be able to compare the two choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was walking down the street after having visited with my ole poet buddy, Ann Deagon, I passed the Number One Chapel Hill Downtown Eyesore. The Wicked Burrito was not a great place when it opened. The outside paint job was ugly, tacky and unappealing. But then the place was abandoned by the chain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}