{"id":9596,"date":"2018-08-15T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=9596"},"modified":"2018-08-15T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:33:37","slug":"water-street-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/water-street-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Street"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I passed through Charlottesville Downtown 8\/12\/18 on the anniversary of the 2017 calamity. The mall was quiet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There were no swords or soda cans. People had migrated south of the Mall to 4th Street to mourn Heather Heyer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lots of folk on Fourth and Water Streets. Not immediately clear what was up. What were the rules? What was the dance? Who should lead off?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It felt like a standoff. Citizens were questioning the garb of the authorities. The authorities weren\u2019t saying much. There was a bit of tension, a question in the air.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Some people were shouting obscenities. Some people were holding their breath. Some people were thinking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There were a three members of City Council on hand.
Councilors Bellamy and Hill…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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and Mayor Nikayuh Walker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Councilors did some good talking, reached out to City management and to law enforcement. No blows fell.
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The rain came down.
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And everyone went home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9609,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596\/revisions\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}