{"id":1805,"date":"2016-06-04T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T06:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2016-12-18T01:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T14:59:10","slug":"rainbow-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2016\/06\/04\/rainbow-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2016\/06\/04\/rainbow-politics\/bourkerainbow_p1020080x_blo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BourkeRainbow_P1020080X_blo.jpg\" alt=\"BourkeRainbow_P1020080X_blo\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BourkeRainbow_P1020080X_blo.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BourkeRainbow_P1020080X_blo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">&#8220;The removal of the Taylor Square rainbow crossing created an even bigger stir than its original installation. To mark its passing, people attached unofficial rainbow flags to poles in Taylor Square and tied rainbow ribbons to safety fences. But performer and activist James Brechney had a fresh idea for an alternate location that somehow captured the zeitgeist.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">My exquisitely objective article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionaryofsydney.org\/entry\/sydneys_rainbow_crossings\">history of the DIY Rainbow Crossing <\/a>is now available to read in the Dictionary of Sydney.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Some time ago I wrote a blog post on the symbolism of pedestrian crossings. It&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2013\/04\/18\/the-symbolism-of-pedestrian-crossings\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2016\/06\/04\/rainbow-politics\/permanentrainbow_imag2868\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1808\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/PermanentRainbow_IMAG2868.jpg\" alt=\"PermanentRainbow_IMAG2868\" width=\"750\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/PermanentRainbow_IMAG2868.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/PermanentRainbow_IMAG2868-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">(Photos by meganix, taken in Darlinghurst in 2013 and Summer Hill 2015)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;The removal of the Taylor Square rainbow crossing created an even bigger stir than its original installation. To mark its passing, people attached unofficial rainbow flags to poles in Taylor Square and tied rainbow ribbons to safety fences. But performer and activist James Brechney had a fresh idea for an alternate location that somehow <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2016\/06\/04\/rainbow-politics\/#more-1805\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,78,86,22,79,76],"tags":[120,3,33,49,21,7,68],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chalk","category-city","category-events","category-protest","category-signs-and-symbols","category-suburbia","tag-chalk","tag-graffiti","tag-graffiti-removal","tag-pedestrians","tag-political","tag-sydney","tag-traffic-signs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}