{"id":14265,"date":"2015-10-19T23:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=14265"},"modified":"2015-10-19T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:15:10","slug":"thumbs-101915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/19\/thumbs-101915\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (10\/19\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quite proud of my <strong>Thumbs!<\/strong> and you should be proud of them too.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>UP!<\/strong><\/span> = Good and <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">DOWN!<\/span><\/strong> = Bad. That&#8217;s simple enough, so let&#8217;s bring on the Big Board!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Thumbs UP!<\/span><\/strong> to the River District Festival. Yep, they advertised with SouthsideCentral (so that&#8217;s an <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Thumbs UP!<\/span><\/strong> for that in itself. Heh.). But the real reason that I enjoyed the RDF is that there was something for everybody this year as they expanded it to three days. Thursday&#8217;s River District Festival takeover of North Union Street was a great event. There were artists and entertainment all in a part of Downtown Danville that gets little foot traffic. That set the tone for a very active three days that ended with a well-attended concert with Tank as the headliner. The RDF has great growth potential and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what they can pull off next year.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong><\/span> to all the businesses that have opened up in the River District in the past few months. Lizzy Lou Boutique, Bobby Carlsen Photography, A La Carte Home Furnishing, River District Barbershop, The 616 restaurant, Me&#8217;s Burgers &amp; Brews, Chestnut Lane Furniture (reopening)&#8230; have I forgotten any? Boom, people. The River District project is working. There&#8217;s the proof.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong><\/span> to the Danville Museum of Fine Arts &amp; History board of directors. They get a &#8220;TOO SOON&#8221; for getting an op-ed in the Register &amp; Bee newspaper trying to justify their advocacy for the removal of the Confederate flag from the museum grounds. They&#8217;re opinion piece was a shameless way to sell their position on the issue and to not sell the building itself. Needless to say, the comment section of the R&amp;B has became the expected trainwreck between flag supporters and flag opponents with name calling and ridicule making most of the commenters look like idiots. And to top it off, the opinion piece didn&#8217;t even have the names of the board members on it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danvillemuseum.org\/board-of-directors\" target=\"_blank\">If you want to know who the board members are, here&#8217;s the link for you<\/a>. Honestly, board members, what the hell were you thinking? All you&#8217;ve done is throw gas on the fire that was slowly starting to go out by itself. Well played. And by &#8220;well played&#8221;, I mean &#8220;dumbass decision&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh well. That &#8220;All <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; streak had to end sometime. 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\/7aTEWad.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/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>I&#8217;m quite proud of my Thumbs! and you should be proud of them too.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumbs","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-3I5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14111,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/26\/thumbs-92615\/","url_meta":{"origin":14265,"position":0},"title":"Thumbs! 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Speaking of the \"not knowing what's happening\" part, apparently Republican Attorney General candidate Mark Obenshain was in Danville today. It surely wasn't publicized for the average undecided voter to have a chance to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Thumbs!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Thumbs!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/thumbs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10310,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/18\/thumbs-9182014\/","url_meta":{"origin":14265,"position":2},"title":"Thumbs! (9\/18\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's get those Thumbs! working... A Thumbs! Big Board is approaching... Thumbs UP! to Danville City Council for immediately recognizing and trying to help out Madison Whittle with his zoning snafu at Tuesday's meeting. 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