{"id":182453,"date":"2015-09-17T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/17\/this-is-a-seriously-cool-person-who-knows-where-their-towel-is\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T01:00:00","slug":"this-is-a-seriously-cool-person-who-knows-where-their-towel-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/17\/this-is-a-seriously-cool-person-who-knows-where-their-towel-is\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is a Seriously Cool Person Who Knows Where Their Towel Is*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Some good soul has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2015\/09\/anonymous_donor_to_pay_for_rem.html\">offered to pay for the removal of Confederate statuses in New Orleans<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An anonymous donor has agreed to foot the bill for the removal of four Confederate-related statues, the city announced in a <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofno.granicus.com\/MetaViewer.php?view_id=3&amp;event_id=522&amp;meta_id=300231\">letter<\/a> this week to the New Orleans City Council.<\/p>\n<p>It will cost an estimated $144,000 to remove and transport the statues of Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard and Jefferson Davis, as well as a monument to the Battle of Liberty Place, according to the letter. The donor agreed to pay for the entire operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These four statues stand in direct contradiction to the ideal of freedom enshrined in our Constitution and their presence in our city was meant to perpetuate a false history that literally puts the Confederacy on a pedestal,&#8221; Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin said in the Sept. 14 letter. &#8220;True remembrance is required, not blind reverence.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;I would very much like to shake the hand of whoever is behind this.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">It is a reference from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345391802\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0345391802&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=40yeainthed0f-20&amp;linkId=TM2KGNMNCHTH3GNO\"><i>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=40yeainthed0f-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0345391802\" height=\"1\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" width=\"1\" \/>.  Go read the book.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good soul has offered to pay for the removal of Confederate statuses in New Orleans: An anonymous donor has agreed to foot the bill for the removal of four Confederate-related statues, the city announced in a letter this week to the New Orleans City Council. It will cost an estimated $144,000 to remove and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1011,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-history","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}