{"id":44,"date":"2013-09-21T23:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T09:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2018-07-08T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T07:27:50","slug":"iconic-ewa-beach-post-office-headed-for-closure-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Choon James: Iconic Ewa Beach Post Office headed for Closure. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/EWA-PO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45 aligncenter\" alt=\"EWA PO\" src=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/EWA-PO-300x176.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/EWA-PO-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/EWA-PO.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY? Ewa Beach Post Office headed for Closure in Oahu<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BYjoNsbnHB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savethepostoffice.com\/makes-no-sense-all-ewa-beach-post-office-headed-closure\/\">&#8220;Makes no sense at all&#8221;: Ewa Beach Post Office headed for closure<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;Makes no sense at all&#8221;: Ewa Beach Post Office headed for closure&#8221; &#8212; Save the Post Office\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savethepostoffice.com\/makes-no-sense-all-ewa-beach-post-office-headed-closure\/embed\/#?secret=saMDw0DDD3#?secret=BYjoNsbnHB\" data-secret=\"BYjoNsbnHB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ewa Beach Station is housed in a building owned by City, and the rent is just $4,404 \u00a0 a year. \u00a0The structure is in good shape, and there\u2019s ample parking. \u00a0The proposal to close says that the post office building is &#8220;not listed as a historic landmark.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s true that the building isn\u2019t on the National Register of Historic Places, but it is a local landmark and many people like the old timey feel of the place, which is associated with the fact Ewa Planation goes back 150 years. \u00a0The post office structure It was built in 1958, making it eligible for the National Register, which uses fifty years old as a benchmark. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The Ewa Federal Credit Union is next door to the post office and one of its best customers, so it\u2019s putting up a fight against the closure.\u00a0 The Credit Union would be severely impacted, since it would need to send an employee seven miles round trip every day to the next nearest post office.<\/p>\n<p>Average citizens are joining in the fight as well. \u00a0Customer Vera Kaaikaula has started a petition drive, and she has gotten more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/story\/23480671\/postal-service-may-close-old-ewa-station\">500 signatures<\/a>. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY? Ewa Beach Post Office headed for Closure in Oahu &#8220;Makes no sense at all&#8221;: Ewa Beach Post Office headed for closure &#8220;The Ewa Beach Station is housed in a building owned by City, and the rent is just $4,404 \u00a0 a year. \u00a0The structure is in good shape, and there\u2019s ample parking. \u00a0The proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}