{"id":1491,"date":"2008-10-15T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2008-10-15T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T16:23:07","slug":"its-so-cute-when-c-ville-forgets-that-its-c-ville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/15\/its-so-cute-when-c-ville-forgets-that-its-c-ville\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s So Cute When C-Ville Forgets that It&#8217;s . . . C-Ville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amusingly, the littlest one in NoVA, Falls Church, has it handled.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blueweeds.typepad.com\/blue_weeds\/2008\/10\/charlottesvil-2.html\">Blueweeds has the details<\/a>.  More background about the opening shots <a href=\"http:\/\/cvillain.com\/2008\/10\/14\/oh-no-he-didnt-charlottesville-bitch-slaps-falls-church-and-tells-their-voter-turn-out-to-suck-it\/\">here<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blueweeds.typepad.com\/blue_weeds\/2008\/10\/charlottesvil-1.html\">Short version<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As word spread today in the normally docile downstate community about Mayor Norris&#8217; throwdown voter turnout challenge to the people of Falls Church City, the Charlottesville natives have reacted, well, let us just say poorly, to the sudden head rush of competition.<\/p>\n<p>The local Charlottesville blog cVillain.com has chronicled the reaction.  The self-described &#8220;hippy trippy liberals with STDs&#8221; of Charlottesville are now vowing to &#8220;bitch slap&#8221; Falls Church and to use our gift of a much beloved sassafras tree as a toothbrush before consuming it in the form of ecstasy.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my.<\/p>\n<p>Notoriously competitive, and a New Jersey native, Falls Church Mayor Robin Gardner was asked to comment on the escalating developments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bitch slap?  Did they really say bitch slap?'&#8221; asked one of only two female mayors in Northern Virgina. &#8220;Oh, this is not so good.  Not good at all.  Somebody may have to take a cab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlottesville is clearly struggling under the pressure of coming within 20 percentage points of our highest-in-the-Commonwealth voter turnout numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(My theory on this little outburst is that they&#8217;re just clamoring for attention, hoping that NoVA will annex them as a protectorate when we finally decide we&#8217;ve had enough of Virginia and secede.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amusingly, the littlest one in NoVA, Falls Church, has it handled. Blueweeds has the details. More background about the opening shots here. Short version: As word spread today in the normally docile downstate community about Mayor Norris&#8217; throwdown voter turnout challenge to the people of Falls Church City, the Charlottesville natives have reacted, well, let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}