{"id":1548,"date":"2008-10-19T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2008-10-19T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T16:43:06","slug":"sign-o-the-times-alarming-your-yard-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/19\/sign-o-the-times-alarming-your-yard-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign O&#8217; The Times: Alarming Your Yard Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yard signs seem to be in great demand in my neighborhood these days &#8211; first by supporters, then by sad little thieves that decide to take a page from their party&#8217;s playbook by shutting down speech they don&#8217;t like.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 At last count, six Obama and\/or Warner signs have been stolen from a prominent spot on my street.\u00c2\u00a0 The last time it happened, I duct-taped a short note to the McCain sign that replaced the stolen Obama sign.\u00c2\u00a0 It invited the thief to leave future Obama signs alone, as no one has stolen a McCain sign around here, as best I can tell.\u00c2\u00a0 Alas, the Obama sign just disappeared again.\u00c2\u00a0 So, because I know we&#8217;re not the only ones with troubled and bitter little Republican thieves, I offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/10\/18\/222920\/02\/699\/634936\">this handy HOW-TO<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the weeks running up to the 2004 presidential election, my yard sign was often pilfered and\/or destroyed. \u00c2\u00a0After the 4th time, I had had enough, and rigged up a fairly simple alarm to help protect my sign. \u00c2\u00a0This post documents how to do it in case you&#8217;re facing your own First Amendment-hating neighborhood antagonists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What You&#8217;ll Need<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Duct tape<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 A wire hanger<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Fishing line (string or twine can also be used)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 A personal alarm (more on this below)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full instructions and pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/10\/18\/222920\/02\/699\/634936\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yard signs seem to be in great demand in my neighborhood these days &#8211; first by supporters, then by sad little thieves that decide to take a page from their party&#8217;s playbook by shutting down speech they don&#8217;t like.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 At last count, six Obama and\/or Warner signs have been stolen from a prominent spot on [&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":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","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=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}