{"id":2057,"date":"2018-07-31T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2018-07-31T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:03:36","slug":"solar-panel-opponents-propose-a-redesign-to-match-the-natural-beauty-of-telephone-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/31\/solar-panel-opponents-propose-a-redesign-to-match-the-natural-beauty-of-telephone-wires\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panel Opponents Propose a Redesign to Match the Natural Beauty of Telephone Wires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KILLINGTON &#8211; The Killington Select Board <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaintimes.info\/solar-panels-killington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has recently decided to move forward with a new plan<\/a> that will see 18 solar panels added to the town in six different locations. The panels will have a net cost of zero, saving the town thousands of dollars over time, but not everyone is happy with the idea of more ugly technology blotting out the beautiful landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like saving money,&#8221; said community member Anne Tagniss, &#8220;but I don&#8217;t want our natural beauty being ruined by these giant panels. Why can&#8217;t they look more like the lovely electrical wires we see all over town already. Those noble poles, the artistic jumbling of wires, both telephone and electrical, that remind me of a Jackson Pollock painting. This is what we need more of. Is there a way to make the solar panels less obtrusive, like by having them running alongside of every single road with criss-crossing wires all over our heads any time we go anywhere? Honestly, what we have now I don&#8217;t even notice. They just blend wonderfully into the landscape. What style! These solar panels need to be more like that. And don&#8217;t even get me started on wind turbines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Winooski<\/em> was not able to question Tagniss further, for fear of getting her started on wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credits\">Image Credits: <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaintimes.info\/solar-panels-killington\/#prettyPhoto\/0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Killington Mountain Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>KILLINGTON &#8211; The Killington Select Board has recently decided to move forward with a new plan that will see 18 solar panels added to the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/31\/solar-panel-opponents-propose-a-redesign-to-match-the-natural-beauty-of-telephone-wires\/\" title=\"Solar Panel Opponents Propose a Redesign to Match the Natural Beauty of Telephone Wires\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2058,"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":[6],"tags":[97],"coauthors":[91],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vermont-life","tag-killington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TWFI-2018_07_31.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-xb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057"}],"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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}