{"id":115,"date":"2010-09-12T23:46:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-09-12T23:46:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:46:39","slug":"parking-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/2010\/09\/12\/parking-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Park(ing) Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parkingday.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-118\" title=\"poster2010_collector\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/poster2010_collector-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"poster2010_collector\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/poster2010_collector-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/poster2010_collector-662x1024.jpg 662w, http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/poster2010_collector.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>I used to have what I consider the best type of commute to work; I could walk.\u00a0 It was beautiful.\u00a0 I could get a little fresh air, some exercise, see the neighborhood from the sidewalk rather than flying by outside my windshield.\u00a0 I loved it.\u00a0 No worries about parking or traffic, just a nice stroll watching the city spring to life each morning.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m a car commuter.\u00a0 I spend my morning changing lanes and avoiding 18-wheelers.\u00a0 It is, luckily, a very brief commute, but still, it sets the tone for the day in a way I don&#8217;t look forward to nearly as much.\u00a0 Driving is simply different than walking.\u00a0 Not better, not worse, just different.\u00a0 I know that as a reluctant car commuter, I look forward to any change of scenery; back bumpers do grow tiresome.\u00a0 There was the time that Cirque du Soleil was in town.\u00a0 I loved seeing the tent rise out of nowhere, creating a new world in what was usually an empty lot.\u00a0 Beauty out of emptiness.\u00a0 Transforming the ordinary.\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s part of why <a href=\"http:\/\/parkingday.org\/\">Park(ing) Day<\/a> is so interesting to me.\u00a0 People transform the everyday parking spot into public space.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/parkingday.org\/archive\/\">Last year<\/a>, over 700 parks sprung up in, what just the day before, was a metered parking spot.\u00a0 To see space being repurposed and reimagined into ways that create small slices of beauty out of plots of concrete is amazing.\u00a0 Park(ing) Day 2010 is this Friday, and I can&#8217;t wait to see the transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have what I consider the best type of commute to work; I could walk.\u00a0 It was beautiful.\u00a0 I could get a little fresh air, some exercise, see the neighborhood from the sidewalk rather than flying by outside my windshield.\u00a0 I loved it.\u00a0 No worries about parking or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}