{"id":407,"date":"2010-03-20T19:40:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T08:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=407"},"modified":"2012-12-24T22:01:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T11:01:42","slug":"fell-in-love-with-a-girl-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/03\/20\/fell-in-love-with-a-girl-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fell in love with a girl today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/07cMAY29-cP1010588-FellinLove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-410\" title=\"07cMAY29-cP1010588 FellinLove\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/07cMAY29-cP1010588-FellinLove-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/07cMAY29-cP1010588-FellinLove-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/07cMAY29-cP1010588-FellinLove-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/07cMAY29-cP1010588-FellinLove.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Camperdown Park, in inner western Sydney, is famous for the graffiti on the sandstone walls separating it from the St Stephens Church Cemetery. I have a book published in 1975 (Ellis &amp; Turner, <em>Australian Graffiti<\/em>) with a black and white photo of graffiti messages in large lettering on this wall like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLove is a many gendered thing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIs there life after marriage?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n<p>These days the political and often witty statements have been joined by more up-to-date styles of graffiti like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcballoon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 lettering and stencils. The graffiti has also crept onto the paths in the park. It soon gets obliterated by pedestrians and cyclists, but three years ago I happened to capture the faint remnants of\u00c2\u00a0this one, which seems to have been written by a\u00c2\u00a0person who was either very happy, or needed to make a statement, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camperdown Park, in inner western Sydney, is famous for the graffiti on the sandstone walls separating it from the St Stephens Church Cemetery. I have a book published in 1975 (Ellis &amp; Turner, Australian Graffiti) with a black and white photo of graffiti messages in large lettering on this wall like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLove is a many <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/03\/20\/fell-in-love-with-a-girl-today\/#more-407\" 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":[78,102,80],"tags":[3,5,21],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city","category-parks","category-personal-notices","tag-graffiti","tag-newtown","tag-political"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}