{"id":1354,"date":"2014-12-31T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:21:53","slug":"edenton-seven-wont-be-snapping-selfies-at-marker-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"Edenton Seven won&#8217;t be snapping selfies at marker ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Dec. 31, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cDear Mr. Powell:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAt their meeting on December 16, the members of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee&#8230; voted unanimously not to approve a marker (in Edenton recognizing the Little Rascals Day Care case).<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cYour nomination was among 17 on the agenda (only five met with approval)&#8230;. In short, the committee felt that the case was too recent \u2013 with too many people affected by it living in the area. They felt that much more time needed to pass before the subject could be judged by history and considered for a marker. One suggestion was that it might be considered 25 years after the deaths of those convicted&#8230;..\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From a letter rejecting my application for a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1356\"><em>\u201chistory on a stick\u201d marker<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0for the Little Rascals case<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">I respect the committee\u2019s reasoning, even though I doubt I\u2019ll be around when it\u2019s ready to reconsider \u2013 in what, 2075?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 31, 2014 \u201cDear Mr. Powell: \u201cAt their meeting on December 16, the members of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee&#8230; voted unanimously not to approve a marker (in Edenton recognizing the Little Rascals Day Care case). \u201cYour nomination was among 17 on the agenda (only five met with approval)&#8230;. In short, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}