{"id":8706,"date":"2014-05-28T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T01:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2014-05-28T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T01:13:52","slug":"randomthoughts-5282014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/28\/randomthoughts-5282014\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (5\/28\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s time for some more RandomThoughts. Walk slowly into my mind, please&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RandomThoughts are best presented on a Big Board&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Am I the only one who hasn&#8217;t heard much about the Virginia Cantaloupe Festival so far? It&#8217;s 16 days away.<\/li>\n<li>Really? Sunday&#8217;s Memorial Day ceremony at the Halifax County War Memorial was the &#8220;black one&#8221; while Monday&#8217;s ceremony was the &#8220;white one&#8221;? Memorial Day ceremonies are self-segregated? Somebody tell me that&#8217;s not true, please.<\/li>\n<li>Has anybody seen any presence or coverage by WSLS-TV (NBC Channel 10) in Danville in a long time?<\/li>\n<li>Nine months later, we still don&#8217;t what in the heck happened down at South Boston&#8217;s Cherokee Tobacco. On August 22nd, 2013, the place was raided by federal agents. What&#8217;s going on?<\/li>\n<li>If the River District Streetscaping Project is now over, why were there eight Public Works employees out there blocking pedestrian traffic while doing something?<\/li>\n<li>Downtown Danville, you still have a parking problem. It&#8217;s not as bad as before but it&#8217;s still there.<\/li>\n<li>I find it hard to believe that any business travelers stay at the Hotel Leeland.<\/li>\n<li>The Nor-Dan post office is now a tobacco store? Since when?<\/li>\n<li>The Market Square shopping center is now pretty much just a Food Lion grocery store. Sad.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Food Lion, their semi-new pre-cut meat program is horrible. As for their value-added pre-packaged meats, I&#8217;m not paying $9.00 a pound for bacon wrapped asparagus. Neither is anybody else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of Thoughts. They sure were Random. 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I am thinking randomly. RandomThoughts belong on a Big Board! I know it's \"surplus city property\" now, but wouldn't it make financial sense to relocate the Danville Public Schools' central office to one of the closed schools\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;RandomThoughts!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"RandomThoughts!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/randomthoughts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/vpswvY4.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10517,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/05\/randomthoughts-1052014\/","url_meta":{"origin":8706,"position":2},"title":"RandomThoughts! (10\/5\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're reading for the first time, a \"RandomThoughts!\" article is filled with Random Thoughts. It's a World Famous Big Board... 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