{"id":2424,"date":"2018-10-11T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:25:45","slug":"vermont-residents-accused-of-cat-calling-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/vermont-residents-accused-of-cat-calling-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Residents Accused of Cat-Calling Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH BURLINGTON &#8211; Authorities in South Burlington are stepping up efforts to reduce cat-calling after complaints from the sunset that several people made unwanted remarks about its appearance. Those accused 0f the harrassment include men, women, and non-binary gendered individuals, and the suspected harrassers shouted their inappropriate comments from motor vehicles, bicycles, and on foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gets pretty old,&#8221; said the sunset, &#8220;hearing &#8216;Wow&#8217; every single time somebody sees me. Running to your friends and yelling &#8216;Hey, you gotta see the sunset tonight!&#8217; is aggressively embarrassing, and it needs to stop. Yeah, I know I look good, but I didn&#8217;t put these colors on for you to gawk at. Can&#8217;t I just look good for myself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sunset was asked about potentialy respectful comments about its beauty, but these too would apparently be unwelcomed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When humans see some natural beauty that is pleasing to their eyes, they should definitely not stare at it or make any remarks about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those accused of cat-calling say that they had no idea the sunset felt this way, and definitely would not have said anything if they had known it would bother the sunset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, they never bothered to ask, did they?&#8221; the sunset said in response. &#8220;A little consent goes a long way people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>SOUTH BURLINGTON &#8211; Authorities in South Burlington are stepping up efforts to reduce cat-calling after complaints from the sunset that several people made unwanted remarks <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/vermont-residents-accused-of-cat-calling-sunset\/\" title=\"Vermont Residents Accused of Cat-Calling Sunset\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2425,"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":[2,6],"tags":[26],"coauthors":[91],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burlington","category-vermont-life","tag-south-burlington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TWFI-2018_10_11.bmp","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-D6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424"}],"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=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}