{"id":622,"date":"2012-07-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=622"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:51:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:51:06","slug":"graffiti-wednesday-oklahoma-jazz-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti Wednesday &#8211; Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7540367902\/\" title=\"Graffiti Bench by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graffiti Bench\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/7540367902_c64a91a798-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bench on the Boston Avenue Pedestrian Overpass near the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. I don&#8217;t think this &nbsp;is an official color scheme for the city. I think somebody, on their own initiative, painted the bench red and stenciled the images on in honor of three performers. I don&#8217;t know how long it has been like this but from the worn condition of the red paint I think it has been there for some time. I think that some graffiti is unofficially tolerated in our fair city. I notice that some &#8220;bad&#8221; graffiti disappears quickly but more artistic graffiti is allowed to stay, at least for a while. I run on the cities Riverparks trails two or three times a week and I&#8217;ve noticed that a lot of graffiti in visible areas disappears where more &#8220;artistic&#8221; works have been allowed to stay. I don&#8217;t know who is making the call, the guy or gal with the brush or one of their bosses but I applaud the judgements being made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7047508015\/\" title=\"IMG_6819 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6819\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/7047508015_842c6e028c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still there, as of last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6901413260\/\" title=\"IMG_6820 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6820\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/6901413260_29d1f4166d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Painted over, for some time.<\/p>\n<p>I like to see a little discretion used by our public officials. When they mouth &#8220;we are just following procedures&#8221; to justify stupidity it makes me cringe.<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody out there have any idea who the guys on the bench are?<\/p>\n<p>My friend Jen in Oklahoma City started the Graffiti Wednesday meme is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenx67.com\/2012\/07\/thunder-up-soccer-moms-invade-okc.html\"><b>posting about graffiti today<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bench on the Boston Avenue Pedestrian Overpass near the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. I don&#8217;t think this &nbsp;is an official color scheme for the city. I think somebody, on their own initiative, painted the bench red and stenciled the images on in honor of three performers. I don&#8217;t know how long it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graffiti","category-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}