{"id":1485,"date":"2018-04-23T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2018-04-23T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:01:08","slug":"south-burlington-sued-for-fraud-forced-to-change-name-to-east-burlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/south-burlington-sued-for-fraud-forced-to-change-name-to-east-burlington\/","title":{"rendered":"South Burlington Sued For Fraud, Forced to Change Name to East Burlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del>SOUTH<\/del>\u00a0EAST BURLINGTON &#8211; The city of South Burlington is not only changing the name of its mascot, but also the name of the city itself. A lawsuit filed in March by a lost and confused tourist claimed that the city&#8217;s name was misleading, and a judge agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was ridiculous,&#8221; said Massachusetts resident Chuck Allyall. &#8220;I was driving around with my wife, looking for South Burlington, and we went south of Burlington, and we were nowhere near where we needed to be. I guess we were in South Burlington for a hot second, but then we were in Shelburne. It was wicked confusing. We actually needed to go\u00a0<em>east\u00a0<\/em>of Burlington. The stupid town lied to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city of South Burlington, now called East Burlington was forced to change its name, as well as to pay out over $75 in gas money to Mr. Allyall for his inconvenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>SOUTH\u00a0EAST BURLINGTON &#8211; The city of South Burlington is not only changing the name of its mascot, but also the name of the city itself. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/south-burlington-sued-for-fraud-forced-to-change-name-to-east-burlington\/\" title=\"South Burlington Sued For Fraud, Forced to Change Name to East Burlington\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[26],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burlington","tag-south-burlington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TWFI-2018_04_23.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-nX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}