{"id":582,"date":"2006-07-28T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2008-01-07T22:45:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T03:45:50","slug":"street-signs-in-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Street signs in Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heat is making me even crankier than usual, but at least the signs I see when I&#8217;m out walking keep me entertained.<\/p>\n<p>Neatly chalked on a sidewalk blackboard in front of a bar at 2046 Mass. Ave.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FOOD<br \/>\nBEER<br \/>\nRED<br \/>\nSOX<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not all of North Cambridge has succumbed to the onslaught of chi-chi boutiques selling things you don&#8217;t really need. A few places still supply the necessities of life.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Spray-painted in neat capital letters, alternating lines painted in red or blue, on the asphalt sidewalk in Cambridge Common parallel to Mass. Ave.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HAPPY 4th OF JULY<br \/>\nCORPORATE AMERICA<br \/>\nMAY WE CONTINUE TO<br \/>\nBATHE IN YOUR<br \/>\nGLORIOUS CORRUPTION<br \/>\n!!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Virginia, we <em>are<\/em> in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>On Oxford Street, a few blocks down from Lesley University, the &#8220;Oxford Laundry Dry Cleaning Coin-Op&#8221; displays the following sign in their window:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This<\/em> LAUNDROMAT WAS IN THE MOVIE &#8220;LOVE STORY&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You probably guessed that the &#8220;o&#8221;s in &#8220;Love Story&#8221; are hearts. I&#8217;m just surprised that anyone still remembers that movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat is making me even crankier than usual, but at least the signs I see when I&#8217;m out walking keep me entertained. Neatly chalked on a sidewalk blackboard in front of a bar at 2046 Mass. Ave.: FOOD BEER RED SOX Not all of North Cambridge has succumbed to the onslaught of chi-chi boutiques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-cambridge","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}