{"id":25624,"date":"2017-11-03T14:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/group-proposes-mural-to-welcome-visitors\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:06:42","slug":"group-proposes-mural-to-welcome-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/group-proposes-mural-to-welcome-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Group proposes mural to welcome visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million tourists visited Juneau this summer, with many of them sending postcards to friends back home. Now, visiting tourists might get a postcard-style greeting of their own when they arrive.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Juneau residents has proposed that a mural with the words &ldquo;Greetings from Juneau&rdquo; go up on the south-facing wall of the Marine Parking Garage. The Juneau Parks &amp; Recreation Advisory Committee will look over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneau.org\/parkrec\/documents\/11.7.17PRACPacket.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the proposal<\/a> at its next meeting, at 6 p.m. Nov. 7 in City Hall Chambers. Members of the public will have a chance to weigh in on the proposal at that meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The group making the proposal, known as the Greetings Tour Committee, is comprised of Travel Juneau board members, Downtown Business Association representatives, a Juneau Public Libraries employee and downtown business owners and community members. The group is inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greetingstour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greetings Tour<\/a>, which is a project by two artists to make murals in all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>The murals contain images of landmarks from whichever city they&rsquo;re in. Themes listed in the proposal include mining, fishing, Alaska Native art, wildlife, rainforest, being the state capital, aviation and the Mendenhall Glacier.<\/p>\n<p>According to the proposal, the mural would be about 40 by 15 feet. The committee plans to raise money for the $12,000 cost of the mural. The proposal said there&rsquo;s a chance for local artists to collaborate with the Greetings Tour artists on the project as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million tourists visited Juneau this summer, with many of them sending postcards to friends back home. Now, visiting tourists might get a postcard-style greeting of their own when they arrive. A group of Juneau residents has proposed that a mural with the words &ldquo;Greetings from Juneau&rdquo; go up on the south-facing wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":25625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25624"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}