{"id":756,"date":"2010-12-05T09:43:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T23:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=756"},"modified":"2010-12-05T09:43:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T23:43:14","slug":"tree-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/12\/05\/tree-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/10qP1100337-TreeReplaced-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-757\" title=\"10qP1100337 TreeReplaced blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/10qP1100337-TreeReplaced-blog-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/10qP1100337-TreeReplaced-blog-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/10qP1100337-TreeReplaced-blog.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>I am still thinking about why it is that some graffitists choose to write on the ground rather than on a wall or some other vertical surface. And that means I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still thinking about graffiti that is site specific \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where the message is relevant to that particular piece of pavement.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sad little piece of correction fluid graffiti. Gigantic Hills Fig trees are progressively being removed from this street in Enmore. Their roots break up the paving and are apparently playing havoc with people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s walls and sewer pipes. Perhaps they were an inappropriate choice for a street tree. But the street is looking bare without them and some of the residents \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as well as all sorts of birds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are going to miss them. The loss of one of the trees is recorded in this tiny, signed epitaph: <em>Tree replaced by cement! T.T. \u00c2\u00a010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is more discussion and photographs of <a href=\"http:\/\/savingourtrees.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/29\/two-healthy-fig-trees-up-for-removal-in-stanmore\/\" target=\"_blank\">this tree <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/savingourtrees.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/28\/enmore-fig-tree-to-be-removed\/#comment-475\" target=\"_blank\">other trees <\/a>in the same street on the Saving Our Trees website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still thinking about why it is that some graffitists choose to write on the ground rather than on a wall or some other vertical surface. And that means I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still thinking about graffiti that is site specific \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where the message is relevant to that particular piece of pavement. Here is a sad <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/12\/05\/tree-replaced\/#more-756\" 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":[87,28,22],"tags":[4,12,3],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-gardens","category-protest","tag-asphalt","tag-enmore","tag-graffiti"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}