{"id":923,"date":"2006-04-04T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/never_forget_what.html"},"modified":"2006-04-04T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T19:01:14","slug":"never_forget_wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/never_forget_wh.html","title":{"rendered":"Never Forget What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A convenience store owner in the Bronx finds that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/BTR_News18.htm\">Sept. 11 murals don&#8217;t prevent graffiti like they used to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A mural paying tribute to those who died on September 11, 2001 was hit with graffiti vandalism recently, prompting an outcry by local elected officials, community leaders and residents.<\/p>\n<p>A side wall of the Bronx Convenience store at 674 Allerton Avenue features a large mural honoring those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center . It showcases a flowing American Flag, the Twin Towers and the message &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; in large block letters.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the patriotic symbols and words of affection for the country, an unidentified graffiti vandal or vandals tagged the mural recently, spraying yellow paint over it.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Monesar, an owner of the convenience store, said he commissioned a local mural artist four years ago to paint the tribute to the victims and heroes of the 9\/11 tragedy. He said the artist specifically indicated in the lower corner of the mural that the artwork was designed as a memorial to those who perished in the attacks. It reads, &#8220;Please respect, no tags.&#8221; The mural managed to avoid graffiti tags for the past few years, but someone decided to destroy the mural in recent weeks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convenience store owner in the Bronx finds that Sept. 11 murals don&#8217;t prevent graffiti like they used to: A mural paying tribute to those who died on September 11, 2001 was hit with graffiti vandalism recently, prompting an outcry by local elected officials, community leaders and residents. A side wall of the Bronx Convenience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}