{"id":175210,"date":"2025-08-25T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175210\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:30:09","slug":"graffiti-on-papago-park-preserve-butte-will-cost-thousands-to-clean-up-tempe-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175210\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti on Papago Park Preserve butte will cost thousands to clean up, Tempe official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the buttes in the Papago Park Preserve in Tempe has been vandalized.<\/p>\n<p>A large asterisk enclosed by a blue circle was painted on a rock face. The graffiti, which is about 10 feet tall, resembles the Star of Life symbol commonly used by emergency medical services.<\/p>\n<p>Police took an incident report of the matter after it was spotted by a park ranger last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tempe spokesperson Kris Baxter-Ging says removing such graffiti from a rock is much different than removing graffiti from a building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It costs thousands of dollars and requires expertise to remove,&#8221; Baxter-Ging said in a statement to KJZZ.<\/p>\n<p>She said similar incidents have occurred on Tempe&#8217;s &#8220;A&#8221; Mountain near Arizona State University&#8217;s campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Past graffiti on &#8216;A&#8217; Mountain (Hayden Butte Preserve) has damaged native petroglyphs and cost tens of thousands of dollars to remove,&#8221; Baxter-Ging said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the buttes in the Papago Park Preserve in Tempe has been vandalized. A large asterisk enclosed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-175210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115091303596627211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}