{"id":3494,"date":"2003-09-21T12:07:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-21T12:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2003-09-21T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2003-09-21T12:07:45","slug":"attack_of_the_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascitystar\/living\/special_packages\/starmagazine\/6693767.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"toynbee-plaque.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-legacy\/images\/blog\/2003\/09\/toynbee-plaque-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" border=\"0\" class=\"imageright\" \/><\/a>A friend pointed me at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascitystar\/living\/special_packages\/starmagazine\/6693767.htm\">article<\/a> about some strange plaques that have been found on roads around the country.  The author certainly did quite a lot of work trying to find out about these things.  Of course the geek in me is already making note of this for the next time I need some ideas for a role playing game.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps the urban equivalent of a crop circle. A mysterious sign appearing in the night. A cryptic message left behind by beings with a seemingly extraterrestrial agenda. <\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps by a paranoid journalist-hating Nazi. In some cities, the basic tiles are sometimes accompanied by an adjacent tile that urges people to &#8220;Murder all journalists, I beg you!&#8221; And in Philadelphia, next to one of the regular tiles, was a long rant, also made up of individual hand-formed letters imbedded in a tile, that blamed &#8220;hellion Jews&#8221; (whatever they are) for a long list of personal problems that the tile maker seemed to be experiencing. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascitystar\/living\/special_packages\/starmagazine\/6693767.htm\">Kansas City Star<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toynbee.net\/\">another page<\/a> that lists where people have found these plaques.  Kind of bizarre and neat.  Makes me wonder what I&#8217;d do if I wanted to do something like this.  Maybe I&#8217;d put signs in strange places with the recipe for brownies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend pointed me at an article about some strange plaques that have been found on roads around the country. The author certainly did quite a lot of work trying to find out about these things. Of course the geek in me is already making note of this for the next time I need some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}