{"id":11784,"date":"2015-01-17T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11784"},"modified":"2015-01-17T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:52:06","slug":"randomthoughts-1172015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/17\/randomthoughts-1172015\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (1\/17\/2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m thinking it, odds are you that you are as well. RandomThoughts time!<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do the Spoon-billed sandpiper, the Cuban greater funnel eared bat, the West Australian underground orchid and city managers have in common? They&#8217;re all on the threatened species list.<\/li>\n<li>Jeez. Do you think Ecomnets&#8217; latest proposal to get Tobacco Commission grant money got rejected because they Job Busted on the first grant and are still paying it back? Nah, couldn&#8217;t be. You&#8217;d think a newspaper reporter would ask that question.<\/li>\n<li>The Halifax County IDA sent out a slick press release to the two local newspapers in Halifax County. (not to SouthsideCentral&#8230; hmmm). Those two newspapers run it bylined as &#8220;Special to the (newspaper name)&#8221;. Nice.<\/li>\n<li>Has anybody been by the new downtown fire station\/911 center since it opened? Me neither.<\/li>\n<li>Whatever happened to the Danville Textile\/Tobacco Museum? I seem to remember it back in the 1980&#8217;s?<\/li>\n<li>I notice that the &#8220;#BlackLivesMatter&#8221; hashtag hasn&#8217;t shown up at all when somebody shot at a house on Harrison St. Tuesday night.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s Big Money in Danville. You can see that at Jake&#8217;s on Main, Golden Leaf Bistro and Friday night&#8217;s &#8220;Corks and Forks&#8221; event.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m getting conflicting answers on whether the old Belk building downtown has been sold or not.<\/li>\n<li>Why haven&#8217;t you been to the Danville Museum?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s some RandomThoughts! for today. We&#8217;ve got more coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/vpswvY4.jpg?resize=375%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m thinking it, odds are you that you are as well. 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