{"id":1022,"date":"2005-02-01T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T14:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/02\/keeping_america_beautiful\/"},"modified":"2005-02-01T06:58:04","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T14:58:04","slug":"keeping_america_beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/02\/keeping_america_beautiful.html","title":{"rendered":"KEEPING AMERICA BEAUTIFUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/01\/29\/nazis.road.reut\/index.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Dontcha just love it?<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/images\/amNAZI.jpg\" width=180\nalign=right><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) &#8212; The American Nazi Party has volunteered<br \/>\nto pick up trash along a quiet stretch of rural road in Oregon state, causing an uproar after getting<br \/>\na sign placed there crediting its work.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>And they&#8217;ve got some fine little helpers.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>The sign, on a quiet stretch of road near Salem, Oregon, also lists the initials<br \/>\n&#8220;NSM,&#8221; which stands for the National Socialists Movement, another white supremacist<br \/>\ngroup.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Maybe it&#8217;s an Aryan trend?<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>A branch of the Klu Klux Klan has &#8220;adopted&#8221; a stretch of road in Missouri.<br \/>\nAfter several legal battles, U.S. courts ruled that attempts to block the white supremacists from<br \/>\nthe litter program was a violation of its free speech rights.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>If it weren&#8217;t so laughable, you might think they were all good little Boy Scouts. Makes you<br \/>\nfeel as warm and cozy as <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/life\/20050131\/bl_bottomstrip31.art0.htm\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>these high school students<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dontcha just love it? PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) &#8212; The American Nazi Party has volunteered to pick up trash along a quiet stretch of rural road in Oregon state, causing an uproar after getting a sign placed there crediting its work. And they&#8217;ve got some fine little helpers. The sign, on a quiet stretch of road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-gu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}