{"id":364,"date":"2007-05-30T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T23:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/30\/va-citizens-have-had-enough\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T19:13:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T23:13:26","slug":"va-citizens-have-had-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/30\/va-citizens-have-had-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Citizens Have Had Enough!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a bit of time in rural Virginia this past week, and while driving there I noticed all of the effort that goes into mowing the highway medians.  It struck me as a colossal waste of time and energy, and perhaps a perfectly sensible place for the perennially poor-mouthing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiadot.org\/default_flash.asp\">VDOT<\/a> to make cuts.   Surely there are more important things we can do with all of the manpower and money this pointless activity takes.  Apparently, I am the only person in Virginia who thinks this way.  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/28\/AR2007052801298.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[S]omething far more insidious is plaguing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/related-topics.html\/Fairfax+County?tid=informline\">Fairfax County<\/a>&#8216;s suburban stretches: unmowed grass on public roadside land.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>And with hundreds of complaints pouring into supervisors&#8217; offices, that translates into one unified message: Something must be done!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is all people are talking about,&#8221; said [Fairfax County Supervisor] Bulova, who agreed to traipse through waist-high grass in the median of Braddock Road on a recent weekday to demonstrate the problem. &#8220;It is so awful. It is unsafe. It is unsightly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.   This is what gets people upset enough to bother calling their representatives.   Maybe we should make median maintenance a National Guard activity.  Then folks would care enough about them being in Iraq, and not here, to do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a bit of time in rural Virginia this past week, and while driving there I noticed all of the effort that goes into mowing the highway medians. It struck me as a colossal waste of time and energy, and perhaps a perfectly sensible place for the perennially poor-mouthing VDOT to make cuts. Surely [&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-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}