{"id":17119,"date":"2017-10-14T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=17119"},"modified":"2017-10-14T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T16:54:51","slug":"fox13-naacp-responds-to-renaming-of-utahs-negro-bill-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/fox13-naacp-responds-to-renaming-of-utahs-negro-bill-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"(FOX13) NAACP responds to renaming of Utah\u2019s Negro Bill Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>Jeanetta Williams, President of the Salt Lake City Chapter of the NAACP, issued a statement Thursday saying they are disappointed with the change and that they hope steps will be taken to preserve the history of the canyon and the man it was named for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NAACP received word this morning that the US Board of Geographic Names changed the name of Negro bill canyon to grand staff canyon. Of course, we are disappointed, because our intent is to let people know that Negro is not an offensive word like some people were saying. What the NAACP want to make sure is that the history of the Negro bill canyon is not lost. The NAACP would like to make sure that literature is provided to visitors that come into the canyon area, as well as the state of Utah about the history of Negro bill canyon.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2017\/10\/12\/naacp-responds-to-renaming-of-utahs-negro-bill-canyon\/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=59e1d33e4b73850006adbb25&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook\">Click Here to Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2017\/10\/12\/naacp-responds-to-renaming-of-utahs-negro-bill-canyon\/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=59e1d33e4b73850006adbb25&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/negro-bill-canyon-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/negro-bill-canyon-sign.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/negro-bill-canyon-sign-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Jeanetta Williams, President of the Salt Lake City Chapter of the NAACP, issued a statement Thursday saying they are disappointed with the change and that they hope steps will be taken to preserve the history of the canyon and the man it was named for. \u201cThe NAACP received word this morning that the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}