{"id":12952,"date":"2013-08-19T17:49:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12952"},"modified":"2013-08-19T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:49:39","slug":"strangely-enough-critics-is-synonym-for-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/strangely-enough-critics-is-synonym-for-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangely Enough, &#8216;Critics&#8217; Is Synonym For &#8216;Competition&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government action brings out the critics: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20130819\/NEWS01\/308190023\/Springfield-City-Council-billboards-ordinance?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">Critics fear proposed Springfield ordinance could lead to billboard proliferation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concerned?  Those who already have billboards in Springfield:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Billed as a \u201cbusiness-friendly\u201d revision of the city\u2019s existing sign regulations, the proposed ordinance was the subject of an unexpected critique Aug. 12 as two local billboard owners warned that the new rules are too lenient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA whole lot of new billboards are going to be built here and in places and locations you might not want to have a billboard in,\u201d said Greg Watkins, who worries a billboard boom could create a backlash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government action brings out the critics: Critics fear proposed Springfield ordinance could lead to billboard proliferation The concerned? Those who already have billboards in Springfield: Billed as a \u201cbusiness-friendly\u201d revision of the city\u2019s existing sign regulations, the proposed ordinance was the subject of an unexpected critique Aug. 12 as two local billboard owners warned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-springfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12953,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952\/revisions\/12953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}