{"id":4962,"date":"2014-08-12T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2014-08-12T21:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T04:00:53","slug":"founders-green-monument-constant-reminder-of-how-great-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=4962","title":{"rendered":"Founders\u2019 Green Monument Constant Reminder of How Great We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Founders-Green-Monument.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Founders-Green-Monument-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Founders-Green-Monument\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4963\" \/><\/a>If you have ever spent any time near the fountains on Founders\u2019 Green, you have undoubtedly seen the small monument celebrating the greatness of the Stapleton community.  Among other things, the plaque states that Stapleton is \u201cone of the premier communities in the United States.\u201d  \u201cIt\u2019s something we wanted to do to honor the great community we have,\u201d said Forest City President Phil Dargossi.  \u201cWe feel it is the least we can do.\u201d\n<!--more-->\nStapleton residents give the plaque mixed reviews.  \u201cBy reading it, you\u2019d think we wrote the constitution,\u201d says resident Timothy Fecht.  \u201cI mean, just look at the phrase, \u2018worked tirelessly.\u2019  Really?  Were people working tirelessly?  Did we win WWII?  It just seems like a little much, and could have been stated more softly.\u201d  Resident Kristen Sturcke disagrees.  \u201cI used to be on the SUN Board, and know people who still are on the board,\u201d said Sturcke.  \u201cSome of these people on these things work 10-12 hours a week.  That\u2019s a lot of hours to be putting in to create what I think is the greatest urban community in the United States.\u201d\nResident Riley Sword feels the whole monument was a way for Forest City to secretly pat themselves on the back.  \u201cThey rarely listen to anything people in the community say,\u201d said Sword.  \u201cSo, why are they pretending we are the ones making it so great?  They are simply congratulating themselves on a job they feel is well done, and in no way does it have anything to do with the citizens of Stapleton or its advisory boards.\u201d  Dargossi says that Forest City plans to put more of the plaques around Stapleton at pocket parks and the town centers.  \u201cWe want people to know we appreciate what they are doing, and ultimately, what we are accomplishing.\u201d\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-86","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}