{"id":213,"date":"2008-10-01T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2008-10-01T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T00:00:15","slug":"shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers \u2013 Not a Pretty Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know the history of this (if there is one), but last time I was driving through Gravenhurst, I noticed how they missed an opportunity to beautify their town by allowing Shoppers Drug Mark to put up such as utilitarian building &ndash; on their main street, virtually the first building one sees when entering Gravenhurst from the south.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_2086a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_2086a-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click for a larger view\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-712\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe thing looks like a fortress, has no street-appeal &ndash; not even any windows (as is their style). I can just imagine how magnificient that lame tree and the scraggly bushes might have looked in some artist&#8217;s rendering.<\/p>\n<p>This just goes to show you, that if you don&#8217;t watch out for your own town, nobody else will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know the history of this (if there is one), but last time I was driving through Gravenhurst, I noticed how they missed an opportunity to beautify their town by allowing Shoppers Drug Mark to put up such as utilitarian building &ndash; on their main street, virtually the first building one sees when entering <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=213' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}