Kudos to Harvey [Moshman] and Will [Clinger]. For the record, I covered the Kennebunkport Town Dump Bicentennial in 1976. (The town was founded in 1683, but the dump in 1776 \u2014 as the town historian says: \u201cThe first years, we were too poor to throw anything away.\") Ten thousand marchers convened on the town's main street, July 4, 1976, led by Grand Marshall Oscar the Grouch. Medallions were struck. \"Trash stamps\" were issued. The parade ended at the dump \u2014 and disbanded. If you can wait until 2076, guys, you can catch it again!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Reinaldo \u201cRonnie\u201d Ramos, former executive editor of the Indianapolis Star, has been hired as editor in chief of Chicago's Better Government Association.\u00a0In the newly created position he will oversee the Illinois Solutions Partnership, a $10 million collaboration between the nonprofit government watchdog and investigative reporting group and the Robert R.... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32364"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32376,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32364\/revisions\/32376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}