{"id":149,"date":"2005-08-22T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/08\/22\/airing-dirty-laundry\/"},"modified":"2005-08-22T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T15:02:45","slug":"airing-dirty-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/08\/22\/airing-dirty-laundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Airing Dirty Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m probably going to make many enemies because of this post, but I just have to get something off my chest.<\/P>
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I went to the Cape this weekend to visit my family. Afer a lovely lazy day on Saturday, my Mom drove me from the Cape to the Braintree subway station on Sunday so I could return to Boston. I noticed something on my drive back that I’d recognized on occasion over the past few years – but not to this extent.<\/P>
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There seems to be an epidemic in Massachusetts (and perhaps across the country) with people hanging “signs” (and I use that word loosely) on highway overpasses with a “welcome back” message to enlisted military persons. Now, although I’m against the war, I do support the actual people who willingly enlisted into military service. It’s not their fault we’re over there and I sincerely hope for their safe return.<\/P>
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But whatever happened to the simple and tasteful method of showing support by tying a yellow ribbon around a tree? Why has everything in this country become more and more excessive. Cars are now SUV’s, a quick meal at McDonalds is now super-sized, houses have become McMansions and yellow ribbons have become king-sized sheets with painted words on them, tied to highway overpasses.<\/P>
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Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if some of them had even the slightest bit of artistry involved in their creation. But more often than not, they’re a white sheet with red (or blue) painted letters. Even worse, the creators inevitably run out of room and squeeze a word in on the right so it will fit on one line. <\/P>
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Perhaps somebody could take a yellow sheet and lace it through the overpass fence holes in the shape of an ribbon? I suspect that would look better.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m probably going to make many enemies because of this post, but I just have to get something off my chest. I went to the Cape this weekend to visit my family. Afer a lovely lazy day on Saturday, my Mom drove me from the Cape to the Braintree subway station on Sunday so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}