{"id":7140,"date":"2026-05-21T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:54:48","slug":"italian-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2026\/05\/21\/italian-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, the Newton mayor declared that the Italian flag stripe down the road did not\u00a0 meet state safety standards, and it would have to be painted over with a double line.\u00a0 \u00a0This was in the very Italian section of the city, and people were pissed.\u00a0 They went out and repainted it, then the yellow lines returned.\u00a0 \u00a0 This year, we elected a new mayor, and one of the first thing he&#8217;s done is restore the stripes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_q9uqmlq9uqmlq9uq.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7141\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_q9uqmlq9uqmlq9uq-500x445.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_q9uqmlq9uqmlq9uq-500x445.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_q9uqmlq9uqmlq9uq-200x178.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_q9uqmlq9uqmlq9uq-768x683.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_q9uqmlq9uqmlq9uq.jpeg 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, the Newton mayor declared that the Italian flag stripe down the road did not\u00a0 meet state safety standards, and it would have to be painted over with a double line.\u00a0 \u00a0This was in the very Italian section of the city, and people were pissed.\u00a0 They went out and repainted it, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2026\/05\/21\/italian-victory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Italian victory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7142,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}