{"id":7882,"date":"2011-04-04T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T01:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7882"},"modified":"2011-04-04T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T01:39:31","slug":"sunny-spring-sunday-enjoy-it-while-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/04\/04\/sunny-spring-sunday-enjoy-it-while-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Spring Sunday.  Enjoy it while you can."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody sets up a sign and throws a shin-dig every Sunday at 1:30 in the middle of the Park Blocks.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a typical Christian gambit.\u00c2\u00a0 The sign says Communion is taking place.\u00c2\u00a0 I walked along, wondering thy there were several (decently dressed) men standing there, spied and read the sign &#8212; which prompted the head of this religious clique to wave in as a means to beckon the obvious curiosity-seeker that I was.\u00c2\u00a0 I shook my head and walked along.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a couple problems with them to work out &#8212; first to move in a different definition of Communion, instead of my Catholic assumption on hearing the word as Eurcharist &#8212; and secondly &#8212; I couldn&#8217;t square the conversation I overheard from them.\u00c2\u00a0 They were talking about the dire need for a Balanced Budget, &#8212; indeed I thought I had stumbled upon a group of evangelical Republicans or evangelical Libertarians (evangelical in the lower case adjective sense).<\/p>\n<p>Moving downtown, I saw that some activists had plastered some chalk writing on the sidewalk in front of some banks&#8211; and in some cases taped crap on the building itself.\u00c2\u00a0 They were protesting environmentally unsound banking practices in terms of who they invest with and lend to &#8212; what interested me about this was to see that the chalk writing stopped at bank&#8217;s edge, such that it was clear the activists had no beef with &#8212; for instance &#8212; Rite Aid &#8212; where the messy chalk writing stopped at store&#8217;s edge, and all was clear in front of Rite Aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody sets up a sign and throws a shin-dig every Sunday at 1:30 in the middle of the Park Blocks.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a typical Christian gambit.\u00c2\u00a0 The sign says Communion is taking place.\u00c2\u00a0 I walked along, wondering thy there were several (decently dressed) men standing there, spied and read the sign &#8212; which prompted the head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}