{"id":189,"date":"2006-10-08T21:29:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T02:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/08\/raleigh-chalk-a-thon\/"},"modified":"2006-10-08T21:32:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T02:32:44","slug":"raleigh-chalk-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/raleigh-chalk-a-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh Chalk-a-thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh had a fun event a couple weekends ago, where local artists were assigned sections of downtown roadway and sidewalk, given a theme (urban renaissance), and a bucket of chalk!  Every section had a milk jug next to it, and you&#8217;d vote with your change for what you liked best.  Our neighbor Kim earned a couple bucks from us with her entry, we liked it.  <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/sidewalk-chalk-kim.jpg\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/sidewalk-chalk-kim_tn.jpg?w=656\" alt=\"Kim's chalkwork\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And it wasn&#8217;t limited to the artists &#8211; anybody could grab chalk and mark up one sidestreet, until it overflowed with creativity.  The girls made some nice contributions:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/sidewalk-chalk-wren.jpg\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/sidewalk-chalk-wren_tn.jpg?w=656\" alt=\"Wren's chalkwork\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/sidewalk-chalk-reiley.jpg\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/sidewalk-chalk-reiley_tn.jpg?w=656\" alt=\"Reiley's chalkwork\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/sidewalk-chalk.jpg\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/sidewalk-chalk_tn.jpg?w=656\" alt=\"The street\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh had a fun event a couple weekends ago, where local artists were assigned sections of downtown roadway and sidewalk, given a theme (urban renaissance), and a bucket of chalk! Every section had a milk jug next to it, and you&#8217;d vote with your change for what you liked best. Our neighbor Kim earned a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/raleigh-chalk-a-thon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raleigh Chalk-a-thon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-daily-life","category-production"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-33","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3641,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2023\/raleigh-is-ours\/","url_meta":{"origin":189,"position":0},"title":"Raleigh is ours","author":"m","date":"January 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Regina and I walked from her old place to her new apartment at Peace that she will be in soon. It's perfect. A 30 minute walk through the heart of Raleigh got us there. Raleigh was hopping today, with full parks, a set of Raleigh Astronomy Club telescopes beautifully filtering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All My Rowdy Friends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3664,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2023\/raleigh-rodeo\/","url_meta":{"origin":189,"position":1},"title":"Raleigh Rodeo","author":"m","date":"March 16, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Ken decided he was coming to Raleigh, yay! Then he talked Matt into joining. And I convinced Erik to come. So local friends and I gathered here and there all over town to pack in quite a fun-filled weekend. 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