{"id":107813,"date":"2024-03-18T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/letter-if-you-see-roadside-rubbish-please-pick-it-up\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T05:30:00","slug":"letter-if-you-see-roadside-rubbish-please-pick-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/letter-if-you-see-roadside-rubbish-please-pick-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: If you see roadside rubbish, please pick it up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met a young Tlingit lady and her friend this weekend, picking up rubbish that had been tossed over the bank and down into the brush around the overlook pull-off at the Auk&rsquo;kwaan townsite.<\/p>\n<p>This is the home of her ancestors and the rubbish is atrocious.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&rsquo;t like it if I found garbage dumped in my granny&rsquo;s yard.<\/p>\n<p>Would you?<\/p>\n<p>When you see roadside rubbish, please pull over, stop and pick it up, just like you would if you saw it in your granny&rsquo;s yard.<\/p>\n<p>Or scramble down the bank at the townsite overlook and grab some trash before the brush greens out.<\/p>\n<p>Gunalsheesh\/thanks for my lifetime of enjoyment of this place and a sincere Gunalsheesh to the Auk&rsquo;kwaan people for sharing their ancestral home so we may all enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Free of rubbish, eh?<\/p>\n<p>If you see something&#8230;grab something.<\/p>\n<p>Garri R. Constantine<\/p>\n<p>Juneau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a young Tlingit lady and her friend this weekend, picking up rubbish that had been tossed over the bank and down into the brush around the overlook pull-off at the Auk&rsquo;kwaan townsite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":107814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[97,106],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-107813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107813"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=107813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}