{"id":1945,"date":"2017-10-03T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2017-10-03T21:53:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T01:53:01","slug":"confederate-statue-to-wear-silly-hat-as-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2017\/10\/03\/confederate-statue-to-wear-silly-hat-as-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Confederate statue to wear silly hat as compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ending a series of heated arguments regarding calls to remove the statue of Confederate Army Lt. Gen. A.P. Stewart from the front of the Hamilton County Courthouse, a compromise was reached between opposing sides, where the statue is allowed to stay but must wear a silly hat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A government building shouldn&#8217;t honor the Confederacy, which fought to preserve slavery, but we also shouldn&#8217;t try to erase history,&#8221; said Fran Mirtizan, a moderator between opposing sides. &#8220;Ideally, this statue of General Stewart would go to a museum, but we reached an agreement where the statue wears this ridiculous novelty hat that looks like a tiny putting green on a golf course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both sides agreed that the silly hat would be changed on a monthly basis, and for the month of November, Stewart will wear a giant foam cowboy hat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There. All better,&#8221; said Mirtizan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ending a series of heated arguments regarding calls to remove the statue of Confederate Army Lt. Gen. A.P. Stewart from the front of the Hamilton County Courthouse, a compromise was reached between opposing sides, where the statue is allowed to stay but must wear a silly hat. &#8220;A government building shouldn&#8217;t honor the Confederacy, which fought to preserve slavery, but we also shouldn&#8217;t try to erase history,&#8221; said Fran Mirtizan, a moderator between opposing sides. &#8220;Ideally, this statue of General Stewart would go to a museum, but we reached an agreement where the statue wears this ridiculous novelty hat that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}