{"id":6130,"date":"2011-02-14T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2011-02-15T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:37:31","slug":"historic-elizabeth-park-defaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/historic-elizabeth-park-defaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Elizabeth Park Defaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Elizabeth Park was the scene of handicraft hooliganism as scores of knit flowers, hearts, and other colorful shapes were strewn throughout the historic rose garden.  There were no reports of injuries from the attack.  The following pictures were taken in, and around, the rose garden pavilion.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Early blooming roses at Elizabeth Park\" width=\"616\" height=\"466\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/01.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/01-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"How did they hang a flower from way up there?\" width=\"616\" height=\"466\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/03.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Flowers on the Pavilion\" width=\"616\" height=\"466\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/03.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/03-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/04.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Are those flowers supposed to be there?\" width=\"616\" height=\"466\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/04.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/04-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>An organization called the <a href=\"http:\/\/knittygrittycommittee.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/happy-v-day.html\">Knitty Gritty Committee<\/a> has claimed responsibility, boldly posting pictures of the attack in progress on their website.  The KGC, with slogans like &#8220;Punks not Dead&#8221; and &#8220;Thug for Life&#8221; in their logo, embrace a form of urban art terrorism that tries to make you feel good.<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood&#8217;s going to pot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Elizabeth Park was the scene of handicraft hooliganism as scores of knit flowers, hearts, and other colorful shapes were strewn throughout the historic rose garden. There were no reports of injuries from the attack. The following pictures were taken in, and around, the rose garden pavilion. An organization called the Knitty Gritty Committee has claimed responsibility, boldly posting pictures of the attack in progress on their website. The KGC, with slogans like &#8220;Punks<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/historic-elizabeth-park-defaced\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1575,1578,1600],"tags":[2061,3140,3141,3142],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-hartford","category-west-hartford","tag-elizabeth-park","tag-knitty-gritty-committee","tag-rose-garden","tag-vandalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}