{"id":2226,"date":"2016-11-14T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T17:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2016-11-14T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T17:06:43","slug":"no-finesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2016\/11\/no-finesse\/","title":{"rendered":"No finesse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One morning hitting Jefferson Blvd, I felt something had happened. Something was missing. Something big and peaceful wasn\u2019t here anymore and it was like Totoro had passed away.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"My Ol Dude\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/haroldito\/30946903256\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"My Ol Dude\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5522\/30946903256_53d080f21e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tree and his healthy 17 brothers and sisters on this block are gone. The city cut them down. How it happened?<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-sidewalk-repairs-20160329-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA sidewalks are busted<\/a>, usually by trees roots. It\u2019s the city\u2019s responsibility to take care of them, if a LA resident can\u2019t use the sidewalk he\/she can sue the city for that (\u201ctrip and fall\u2019 lawsuits). On this stretch, one tree definitely had busted the sidewalk wide open. One tree. What does the city do? Cut them all down including this gorgeous one that wasn\u2019t destroying the sidewalk at all. And of course it\u2019s LA, no one\u2019s walking around and now that this entire block has been deprived of natural shade\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What is sad is how no one wants to do the work and fucking move on. I\u2019ve cut down trees before. It\u2019s a neighborhood issue: take 4 dudes over a weekend to cut the one tree that is annoying, another day to repair the sidewalk and those trees live, the sidewalk is fixed, the city didn\u2019t pay shit, the neighborhood is tighter, people got to know each other and kids can still marvel at that wonderful green giant. Instead it\u2019s a barrage of \u201cif the city had done its job ten years ago\u201d \u201cproperty owners should have done it\u201d \u201cwasn\u2019t me\u201d BS. <\/p>\n<p>Sorry my big beautiful dude. I miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One morning hitting Jefferson Blvd, I felt something had happened. Something was missing. Something big and peaceful wasn\u2019t here anymore and it was like Totoro had passed away. This tree and his healthy 17 brothers and sisters on this block are gone. The city cut them down. How it happened? Some LA sidewalks are busted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}