{"id":2738,"date":"2017-06-26T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2017-06-26T13:07:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:07:36","slug":"are-peace-signs-the-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/are-peace-signs-the-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Peace Signs The Bomb?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my kind of story about the power of peace buttons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In one North Carolina city, authorities decided it might be too dangerous to give peace a chance.\"Give<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

News outlets report Interstate 240 in Asheville and a bridge over it were closed for about 10 minutes Thursday while police removed two round button-like objects reading “peace” from underneath the bridge.<\/em><\/p>\n

About 1 foot (0.3 meters) across, the objects were made of a Styrofoam-like material, painted red and gray, and attached with magnets to the steel beams underneath the bridge on the northbound and southbound spans.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Citizen-Times quotes Lt. Joseph Sorrells as saying authorities assumed the objects didn’t pose a threat, but they shut down traffic “to err on the side of caution.” He said the objects were harmless.<\/em><\/p>\n

The road closures caused significant backups on I-240, and a preschool was placed on lockdown.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have been known and unknown to skulk about in similar such peacemongering activities. \u00a0When peace breaks out in such small ways, may we not be so afraid.<\/p>\n

Please feel free to browse my many hundreds of peace sign designs, from simple to psychedelic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my kind of story about the power of peace buttons: In one North Carolina city, authorities decided it might be too dangerous to give peace a chance. 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