{"id":450,"date":"2010-01-30T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graffiti.puslapiai.lt\/?p=450"},"modified":"2016-01-02T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T08:37:16","slug":"to-do-something-that-big-and-bold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/2010\/01\/30\/to-do-something-that-big-and-bold\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;To do something that big and bold&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;7 alleged members of L.A. tagging crew arrested&#8221;<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/jan\/29\/local\/me-big-taggers29\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/jan\/29\/local\/me-big-taggers29<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the macho, braggart, narcissistic world of Los Angeles tagging, no one can match the Metro Transit Assassins crew<\/p>\n<p>These are not kids from the streets<\/p>\n<p>one of the suspects drives a $60,000 BMW while another wore a diamond-and-ruby-encrusted Metro logo pendant valued at $27,000<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have long been frustrated by MTA<\/p>\n<p>the taggers outdid themselves when they hit the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River in downtown&#8217;s industrial district<\/p>\n<p>it took about 400 gallons of paint &#8212; 300 gallons of white and 100 gallons of black &#8212; to create three block letters that cover a three-story-high wall<\/p>\n<p>The Army Corps of Engineers estimates that removing the MTA tag from the river alone will cost $3.7 million<\/p>\n<p>MTA &#8212; also known as Melting Toys Away and Must Take All &#8212; has been  generating buzz in the graffiti art world for several years<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is so much demand for street art right now,&#8221; Gastman said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is definitely a statement,&#8221; Gastman said. &#8220;To do something that big and bold it takes organization&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;7 alleged members of L.A. tagging crew arrested&#8221;: http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/jan\/29\/local\/me-big-taggers29. In the macho, braggart, narcissistic world of Los Angeles tagging, no one can match the Metro Transit Assassins crew These are not kids from the streets one of the suspects drives a $60,000 BMW while another wore a diamond-and-ruby-encrusted Metro logo pendant valued at $27,000 Authorities &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/2010\/01\/30\/to-do-something-that-big-and-bold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&quot;To do something that big and bold&quot;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3597,"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50000.lt\/graffiti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}