{"id":286661,"date":"2010-02-06T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128776d3ffa970c"},"modified":"2010-02-06T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T17:04:42","slug":"shoes-on-a-wire-is-this-the-new-graffiti-california-cities-crack-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/286661","title":{"rendered":"Shoes on a wire &#8212; is this the new graffiti? California cities crack down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"All tangled up\" border=\"0\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2010-02\/52062385.jpg\" width=\"580\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Critics call it &quot;shoefiti,&quot; and some cities, including Long Beach, are beginning to liken the problem to graffiti and other types of vandalism<\/p>\n<p>If you look up, you might spot them hanging from telephone wires and power lines by their shoelaces.<\/p>\n<p>Some people say the suspended sneakers, high-tops and boots mark a<br \/>\nplace where drugs are sold. Other lore holds they commemorate a<br \/>\nkilling, mark gang territory or vow retaliation.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>\nOthers insist throwing shoes tied together by their laces over a wire<br \/>\nis just a child&#8217;s prank, an effort to leave a mark that&#8217;s as pointless as<br \/>\nsticking gum under a table.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLong Beach wants to get a handle on what has been a persistent blemish<br \/>\non the urban landscape. City leaders this week requested a<br \/>\nsystem to remove shoes from utility lines within 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-shoes-on-a-wire6-2010feb06,0,1378631.story\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Tony Barboza<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: &quot;Shoefiti,&quot; complicated by bureaucracy, has plagued Long Beach for years. Credit: <\/em><span class=\"credit\"><em>Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/span><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics call it &quot;shoefiti,&quot; and some cities, including Long Beach, are beginning to liken the problem to graffiti and other types of vandalism If you look up, you might spot them hanging from telephone wires and power lines by their shoelaces. Some people say the suspended sneakers, high-tops and boots mark a place where drugs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}