{"id":1123,"date":"2014-09-01T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T21:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2014-09-01T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T21:35:33","slug":"city-approves-2-8-million-miller-plaza-statue-of-ralphie-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2014\/09\/01\/city-approves-2-8-million-miller-plaza-statue-of-ralphie-may\/","title":{"rendered":"City approves $2.8 Million Miller Plaza statue of Ralphie May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced earlier this morning that the City of Chattanooga has approved a $2.8 million statue of Chattanooga Native and funny man Ralphie May.<\/p>\n<p>The statue will be erected in the heart of Miller Plaza. Officials say much of the area&#8217;s seating will have to be removed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ralphie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1124\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ralphie-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"ralphie\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ralphie-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ralphie-276x135.jpg 276w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ralphie.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The project has been granted to River City Company, who placed the project ahead of any plans for revamping the Miller Plaza area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since Mr. May is a larger individual, and he will be the first to tell you that in a grueling hour and a half set, a larger supply of materials are needed to complete the statue, no pun intended&#8221; said chief River City statue architect Todd Dabble.<\/p>\n<p>Future plans of local celebrity monuments include Dennis Haskins, whose statue will pop up at random places for people to take a picture with and post on random social networking websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced earlier this morning that the City of Chattanooga has approved a $2.8 million statue of Chattanooga Native and funny man Ralphie May. The statue will be erected in the heart of Miller Plaza. Officials say much of the area&#8217;s seating will have to be removed. The project has been granted to River City Company, who placed the project ahead of any plans for revamping the Miller Plaza area. &#8220;Since Mr. May is a larger individual, and he will be the first to tell you that in a grueling hour and a half set, a larger supply of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}