{"id":157121938,"date":"2009-12-24T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=157121938"},"modified":"2009-12-24T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:58:58","slug":"walk-this-way-to-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=157121938","title":{"rendered":"Walk this way to obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from the Urban Places and Spaces blog article:<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Prince Georges Gazette reports, in &quot;Proposal to lessen walking distance to schools could become costly: Senator says students are required to walk too far,&quot; that any distance more than 1\/4 of a mile is too far to walk to school, according to State Senator Anthony Muse, who has introduced legislation to change school bus transportation requirements in the county. From the article:<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\nPublic health statistics for Prince George&#8217;s County:<br \/>\nPhysical Activity and Obesity<br \/>\nPercent of adults age 18 and over who engage in regular moderate physical activity =45%<br \/>\nPercent of youth age 6-19 who engage in regular moderate physical activity = 56%<br \/>\nPercent of youth age 2-19 who are overweight = 31%<br \/>\nPercent of adults age 18 and over who are overweight, BMI 25-29.9 = 39%<br \/>\nPercent of adults age 18 and over who are obese, BMI &gt; 30 = 23%<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/walk-this-way-to-school-and-transit.html\">https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/walk-this-way-to-school-and-transit.html<\/a>oldId.20091224125858589<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from the Urban Places and Spaces blog article: &#8230; The Prince Georges Gazette reports, in &quot;Proposal to lessen walking distance to schools could become costly: Senator says students are required to walk too far,&quot; that any distance more than 1\/4 of a mile is too far to walk to school, according to State Senator &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=157121938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walk this way to obesity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157121938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157121938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157121938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157121938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157121938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157121938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157121938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}