{"id":181,"date":"2025-04-17T15:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:56:57","slug":"is-this-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Is this you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi, it looks like it was a fair amount of effort to bend this sign, and now the metal is a more awkward shape for recycling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9398-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9398-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9398-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9398-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9398-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9398-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some constructive alternatives: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Make your own signs that share your point of view. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Take me up on my offer to work on a pedestrian safety project together &#8211; I would have put a ton of hours into that, and then that&#8217;s less time that I&#8217;d have to try to educate the community about the housing changes that are coming to our city. I&#8217;d still be delighted to have people to work with on projects like that, and I&#8217;m sure there are lots of other things we agree on and could do useful work toward. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For anyone else reading this, there actually are quite a few signs missing, and I think that in most cases they&#8217;ve really disappeared, but it&#8217;s also possible that they&#8217;re hiding in bushes somewhere. The one above was folded up and hidden behind a wall.  If you see one that needs to be retrieved, please let me know so that I can get it. I don&#8217;t want these to end up littering our neighborhoods! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, it looks like it was a fair amount of effort to bend this sign, and now the metal is a more awkward shape for recycling. Some constructive alternatives:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}