{"id":391587,"date":"2010-03-04T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-04-what-to-do-when-haters-diss-livable-communities\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:30:54","slug":"what-to-do-when-haters-diss-livable-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/391587","title":{"rendered":"What to do when haters diss livable communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayo4theo.com\/stuff\/pics\/haters-gonna-hate.gif\"><\/a>Haters gonna hate. Click to see him walk it out, for realz.Omar Noory, http:\/\/thisisallido.com\/work.html<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t be certain, but we&#8217;re pretty sure this comic is commentary on <a href=\"http:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/03\/04\/lahood-bond\/\">a recent heated exchange between the Secretary of Transportation and a certain Missouri senator<\/a> who be hatin&#8217; on sidewalks and &#8220;livability&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When did it become the responsibility of the federal DOT (Department of Transportation) to<br \/>\nbuild sidewalks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enhancements.org\/history.asp\">1991, to be precise.<\/a> If haters gonna hate, just put on your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g-LRuhmFSBU\">Happy Feet and walk it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/porcupineschool.tumblr.com\/\">Kevin Buist&#8217;s blog<\/a> on the image.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-08-cocaine-addicts-are-snorting-their-way-to-a-warmer-world\/\">Cocaine addicts are snorting their way to a warmer world<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-05-is-birdemic-the-best-worst-apocalyptic-thriller-of-all-time\/\">Is &#8216;Birdemic&#8217; the best\/worst apocalyptic thriller of all time?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-04-supermarket-medleys-are-a-fruit-smashing-success\/\">Supermarket medleys are a fruit-smashing success<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=eb096823e03b76f8b4dcbf6b52dc6954&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=eb096823e03b76f8b4dcbf6b52dc6954&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Braun Haters gonna hate. Click to see him walk it out, for realz.Omar Noory, http:\/\/thisisallido.com\/work.html We can&#8217;t be certain, but we&#8217;re pretty sure this comic is commentary on a recent heated exchange between the Secretary of Transportation and a certain Missouri senator who be hatin&#8217; on sidewalks and &#8220;livability&#8221;: &#8220;When did it become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391587","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\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}