{"id":816,"date":"2008-05-27T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T08:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2008-05-27T08:58:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T08:58:30","slug":"interview-with-a-tagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Interview With A Tagger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public rage over tagging that has been simmering in NZ these past few months has not exactly covered the local media in glory, but the DomPost surprised me with this <a href=http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4561275a10.html>profile of a tagger<\/a>. It&#8217;s complex and revealing, non-judgmental but certainly making no excuses. The subject of the profile is articulate in some quotes, and quite the opposite of others. It&#8217;s by turns baffling and revealing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKitchener epitomises all that people detest when they see their city or town defaced by vandals. A seasonal fruit picker currently out of work, he&#8217;s a young, bored man with no interests and no ambitions that don&#8217;t include spraying paint on someone else&#8217;s property&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;He says he understands why people would get upset at being tagged, but he just doesn&#8217;t care.<br \/>\n&#8220;I definitely wouldn&#8217;t like it if it was done to me. But if I thought about that I wouldn&#8217;t do it, if I thought about people&#8217;s feelings. I&#8217;ve never cared what people think of me. If I did I would&#8217;ve stopped.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great piece of compact profile journalism. It could stand to be several times as long, but I suspect that would only reveal more complications in its subject.<br \/>\nNice one, Marty Sharpe. Nice one, DomPost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public rage over tagging that has been simmering in NZ these past few months has not exactly covered the local media in glory, but the DomPost surprised me with this profile of a tagger. It&#8217;s complex and revealing, non-judgmental but certainly making no excuses. The subject of the profile is articulate in some quotes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interview With A Tagger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediawatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-da","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}