{"id":87812,"date":"2013-10-20T18:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T17:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karendecoster.com\/?p=20796"},"modified":"2013-10-20T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T17:18:05","slug":"detroits-phallic-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/detroits-phallic-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit\u2019s Phallic Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time that Detroit gets some positive attention for its appreciable views from downtown.\u00a0Forget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=detroit+ruin+porn&amp;espv=210&amp;es_sm=91&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=9Q9kUsKkLKLlyAHfwoDACA&amp;ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&amp;biw=1432&amp;bih=734&amp;dpr=1\">the ruin porn<\/a> &#8211; looking across the river this week (my office is visible in the background) we get to see our Canadians friends in Windsor and <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/city-officials-panic-after-vandals-trim-bush-in-the-s-1447809743\/@aaronfoley\">their wonderful sense of humor<\/a>\u00a0as well as sense of aesthetics. <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/city-officials-panic-after-vandals-trim-bush-in-the-s-1447809743\/@aaronfoley\">From Gawker media<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>CBC News reports that Mayor Eddie Francis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/windsor\/phallic-shaped-bush-in-windsor-park-work-of-vandals-1.2100719#vf-5889900000089\">was &#8220;not happy&#8221;<\/a> when told that one of the city&#8217;s shrubs had undergone a phallic makeover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bush was in the sculpture garden, and somebody took it upon themselves to reshape the bush into something that they wanted to see,&#8221; the city&#8217;s parks boss John Miceli <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2013\/10\/18\/windsor-city-staff-rush-in-with-trimming-shears-to-fix-phallic-shaped-bush\/\">told the <i>Windsor Star<\/i><\/a>. &#8220;Whoever did the shaping was pretty proficient at shaping bushes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karendecoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bush.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20798 aligncenter\" alt=\"bush\" src=\"http:\/\/karendecoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bush.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s about time that Detroit gets some positive attention for its appreciable views from downtown.&nbsp;Forget the ruin porn &ndash; looking across the river this week (my office is visible in the background) we get to see our Canadians friends in Windsor and their wonderful sense of humor&nbsp;as well as sense of aesthetics. From Gawker media: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}