{"id":283,"date":"2013-11-08T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/08\/providence-journal-letter-to-the-editor-says-scrap-economic-activity\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:23","slug":"providence-journal-letter-to-the-editor-says-scrap-economic-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/08\/providence-journal-letter-to-the-editor-says-scrap-economic-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence Journal letter to the editor says scrap = economic activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.olivesoftware.com\/Olive\/ODE\/ProJo\/LandingPage\/LandingPage.aspx?href=VFBKLzIwMTMvMTEvMDg.&amp;pageno=MTU.&amp;entity=QXIwMTUwMw..&amp;view=ZW50aXR5\" target=\"_blank\">Providence Journal letter to the editor<\/a>, Irving Sheldon argues that scrap is an important generator of economic activity. Indeed, scrap is <a href=\"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/28\/rhode-island-a-major-scrap-exporter-thanks-to-providences-working-waterfront\/\">Rhode Island&#8217;s largest export<\/a> thanks to the Port of Providence&#8217;s deep-water channel, a key economic asset for Rhode Island and the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>One man\u2019s trash . . .   <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her Oct. 23 letter, Theresa Quigley complains of the \u201cjunkyard\u201d on the Providence waterfront. I don\u2019t believe this is junk: It is valuable scrap metal which has been collected and will be loaded on ships, an important generator of economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>Irving C. Sheldon<br \/>\nSaunderstown<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Providence Journal letter to the editor, Irving Sheldon argues that scrap is an important generator of economic activity. Indeed, scrap is Rhode Island&#8217;s largest export thanks to the Port of Providence&#8217;s deep-water channel, a key economic asset for Rhode Island and the region. One man\u2019s trash . . . In her Oct. 23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}