{"id":741,"date":"2010-11-24T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=741"},"modified":"2013-01-10T22:37:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:37:22","slug":"sick-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/11\/24\/sick-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1100406-BreadBirds2-red.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-742\" title=\"P1100406 BreadBirds2 red\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1100406-BreadBirds2-red-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1100406-BreadBirds2-red-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1100406-BreadBirds2-red.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Walls and other vertical surfaces are the usual choice of background for graffiti writers. So why do some people choose to write on the pavement? Maybe because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no need to scale walls or climb ladders. Maybe because the pavement is relatively bare \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more asphalt and concrete available than empty walls. Maybe because property owners don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dob you in if you write on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>All that is probably part of it, but there are other reasons as well. Many pavement inscriptions are site specific. Is this spot in Enmore a place where someone leaves bread for pigeons? If so, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much point in leaving a polite little cardboard notice for them. Perhaps the glaring message <em>Bread is making birds<\/em> <em>sick<\/em> will have some effect in deterring them from polluting the street, attracting rats \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and giving birds vitamin deficiency diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walls and other vertical surfaces are the usual choice of background for graffiti writers. So why do some people choose to write on the pavement? Maybe because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no need to scale walls or climb ladders. Maybe because the pavement is relatively bare \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more asphalt and concrete available than empty walls. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/11\/24\/sick-birds\/#more-741\" 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":[61,80,106],"tags":[12,3],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-life","category-personal-notices","category-rules-and-regulations","tag-enmore","tag-graffiti"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}