{"id":167,"date":"2009-12-25T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:53:00","slug":"mormon-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theutahhostage.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving down Bangerter Highway, you will often see&nbsp;messages written in&nbsp;the&nbsp;fences that cross the highway.<\/p>\n<p>In plastic cups.&nbsp;True story.<\/p>\n<p>You will see anything from&nbsp;birthday messages&nbsp;to&nbsp;welcome home messages for&nbsp;missionaries.&nbsp;Even&nbsp;marriage proposals. They usually don&#8217;t last long. You might see the messages intact once as you drive by.&nbsp;The next time you pass by?&nbsp;The messages are most likely&nbsp;distorted, possibly&nbsp;even transformed into something totally different from the original message.<\/p>\n<p>I took this picture on the way to work this morning. This message&nbsp;has been intact for I think 3 weeks now. I&#8217;m amazed at how much effort was put into it and at how respecful people have been to not destroy it. Of course now that I&#8217;ve said that&#8230;..well, you know.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" ps=\"true\" src=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_7R508gLP3Gw\/SzQwOHMBEwI\/AAAAAAAAAK4\/CxNtX2-_xSQ\/s1600-h\/Blog+Signature++color.gif\" style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" ps=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_7R508gLP3Gw\/SzQwOHMBEwI\/AAAAAAAAAK4\/CxNtX2-_xSQ\/s320\/Blog+Signature++color.gif\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving down Bangerter Highway, you will often see&nbsp;messages written in&nbsp;the&nbsp;fences that cross the highway. In plastic cups.&nbsp;True story. You will see anything from&nbsp;birthday messages&nbsp;to&nbsp;welcome home messages for&nbsp;missionaries.&nbsp;Even&nbsp;marriage proposals. They usually don&#8217;t last long. You might see the messages intact once as you drive by.&nbsp;The next time you pass by?&nbsp;The messages are most likely&nbsp;distorted, possibly&nbsp;even transformed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theutahhostage.com\/?p=167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mormon Graffiti<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[32,33,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freakin-weird-shit","category-holidays","category-the-method-to-my-madness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mormon Graffiti - Tales of a Former Utah Hostage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theutahhostage.com\/?p=167\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mormon Graffiti - Tales of a Former Utah Hostage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Driving down Bangerter Highway, you will often see&nbsp;messages written in&nbsp;the&nbsp;fences that cross the highway. 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