{"id":239306,"date":"2017-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-july-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor \u2013 July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More bookstore praise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>[Ref: \u201cT<\/em><em>\u00e9l <\/em><em>bird is (still) the word(nerd)<\/em><em>,\u201d Vol. 18, Issue 5, or online at <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/the-bird-is-still-the-word-nerd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tinyurl.com\/ycvptw6o<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A very pleasant bookstore and gathering spot for visitors and locals. San Diego needs more venues like Upstart Crow<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Ted Burke, via <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sandiegodowntownnews.com<\/a><\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Swift Boat memories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>[Ref: \u201cSwift boats and fire fights,\u201d Vol. 18, Issue 5, or online at <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/swift-boats-and-firefights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit.ly\/2szQ1bJ<\/a><\/em><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I met Bob Bolger shortly after I joined the Swift Boat Sailors Association in 2007. We\u2019re both from Brooklyn and were involved in Swift Boat Ops in Vietnam. The S.B.S.A. has a reunion every-other year and we were in San Diego last month. A good time was had by all; an absolutely great crew. Very fun, dedicated group.<\/p>\n<p>If you check out the exhibit at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, take a look at a narrow wall area to the left\/outside of the display. You will see the cover of a Sea Classics magazine that features a Swift Boat photo and below that is the first two pages (of 14) of an article I wrote about the PCF 816 restoration project.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently working on a PBS-TV\/Vietnam project. Thanks for a great article about Bob and his support of Swift Boat history. From the start of the war until the end there were about 3,500 Swift Boat sailors. I understand about 1,000 of us are still alive.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Tom Edwards, via our website<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biking or growth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>[Ref: \u201cA path towards mixed reaction,\u201d Vol. 17, Issue 4, or online at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/a-path-toward-mixed-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>bit.ly\/2tjqL6V<\/em><\/a><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>San Diego is pretty bike friendly compared to a lot of other metro cities. I think what\u2019s not helping is the landscape of SD and the shortage of real estate. I think San Diego is busy trying to accommodate the ever growing cars.?A good ol\u2019 Infrastructure vs growth<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Dayton Marketing, via our website<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>[Ref: \u201cFashion Files: Sewing, hats and horses, oh my,\u201d Vol. 16, Issue 8, or online at <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/fashion-files-sewing-hats-and-horses-oh-my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit.ly\/2tFA2bF<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Opening Day Hat Contest winners: Amber Maturime \u2014 it\u2019s Amber Thorne not Maturime. I\u2019m the \u201cBest Racing\u201d in black and white checkers. Please correct this mistake.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Amber Thorne, via our website<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Correction made to caption and inside column; we regret the error.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bookstore praise [Ref: \u201cThe bird is (still) the word(nerd),\u201d Vol. 18, Issue 5, or online at tinyurl.com\/ycvptw6o] A very pleasant bookstore and gathering spot for visitors and locals. San Diego needs more venues like Upstart Crow \u2014Ted Burke, via sandiegodowntownnews.com<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":224514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Letters to the editor \u2013 July 2017","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11552,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-opinion","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}