{"id":11121,"date":"2015-06-24T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=11121"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:33:00","slug":"get-off-your-butts-and-keep-aurora-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/get-off-your-butts-and-keep-aurora-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Get off your butts and keep Aurora clean"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Monica and I have lived in Aurora for many years. I walk to most places, weather permitting, and use the bus other times.
\nWhen walking, I see many cigarette butts on the sidewalks, private property and even roads, along with other kinds of garbage too.
\nWhen people are in cars and are smoking, they just toss the butt out the window instead of putting it in the ash tray and emptying it when they get home.
\nWhen on the street, it is not much different. They just drop it on the sidewalk.
\nThis will not change until smokers realize what they are doing to themselves and the environment.
\nWhen you get home, do you just drop it on the floor or on the furniture?
\nThe smell of cigarettes is disgusting to most people. When mothers are out walking with their children, they have to be so careful of the ones that walk beside the buggy that they don\u2019t pick up anything on the ground.
\nI thought things might change with people being made aware of the dangers of smoking but, alas, this doesn\u2019t seem to be the case.
\nI would love to see the butts and garbage disappear not just when the Mayor has a special day like the Annual Clean-Up Day, but all the time.
\nWhen I am out walking I always take a shopping bag with me and I pick up the garbage, but I can\u2019t pick up butts.
\nSo, please don\u2019t litter. Keep Aurora clean.
\n
\nMonica Day
\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Monica and I have lived in Aurora for many years. I walk to most places, weather permitting, and use the bus other times. When walking, I see many cigarette butts on the sidewalks, private property and even roads, along with other kinds of garbage too. When people are in cars and are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2Tn","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 04:27:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}