{"id":607115,"date":"2009-11-25T16:37:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010356250_theendofaneramemorialstadium.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-25T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:37:41","slug":"the-end-of-an-era-memorial-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/607115","title":{"rendered":"The end of an era? Memorial Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do we really need another downtown parking garage?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>How dare you, Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 years past a remarkable generation of Americans, our friends, fathers, mothers, grandparents and our youth, joined forces during World War II. Now 62 years later, our city of Seattle is planning to desecrate a war memorial dedicated to our youth, who gave their all fighting for our freedoms [\u201cThe end of Memorial Stadium?,\u201d page one, Nov. 25].<\/p>\n<p>Some of those youth never returned, and their resting place is Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>How dare you, Seattle?<\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s Memorial Stadium was dedicated Thanksgiving Day 1947 to honor this remarkable generation. How soon we forget the sacrifices our youth made going into war directly out of Seattle schools.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on you, Seattle to even think about desecrating a war memorial honoring those youth and our future youth. Do we really need another parking garage in lieu of a war memorial? The Seattle Center and Seattle Public Schools staff have reached a tentative agreement to do just that.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Guy Gallipeau, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we really need another downtown parking garage? Editor, The Times: How dare you, Seattle. More than 60 years past a remarkable generation of Americans, our friends, fathers, mothers, grandparents and our youth, joined forces during World War II. Now 62 years later, our city of Seattle is planning to desecrate a war memorial dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xWb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}