In response to the guest commentary written by John Bolthouse about the demolition\u00a0of the Windemere Cottage (“Razing of Windemere Cottage a catastrophic loss of community\u2019s heritage,” Jan. 5, Page 6), I agree. We as a community must stand up and say to the city of San Diego, “I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more.” I have watched for years the destruction, with great sadness, of the history of La Jolla. The city will never care about historic preservation \u2014 it makes no money for them \u2014 but we as a community can do something. We can become our own city \u2014 which should, at the most, cost $2 million \u2014 and after three years we will recoup that. We will no longer have to respond\u00a0to what the city has to say. We will be free, like all great cities! This is not a pipe dream. It is only a matter of money and action. All else is in place, and we have permission to [secede] if we are willing to go through the process. I know someone is out there who wants to be the founder of the city of La Jolla. [All we need is] money to save us and our history and all we love about La Jolla. If we wait\u00a0much longer, we may not have much left. We have the ability and chance to create our own destiny, and we owe it to the Jewel. It is possible. To learn more about how it can be done, visit independentlajolla.org. \u00a0 \u00a0 Melinda Merryweather, La Jolla<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In response to the guest commentary written by John Bolthouse about the demolition\u00a0of the Windemere Cottage (“Razing of Windemere Cottage a catastrophic loss of community\u2019s heritage,” Jan. 5, Page 6), I agree. We as a community must stand up and say to the city of San Diego, “I am mad as hell and I am […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Letter to the editor: Preservation of history would require an independent La Jolla","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11593,11552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-no-images","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303355","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=303355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}