{"id":197043996,"date":"2011-03-31T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197043996"},"modified":"2011-03-31T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:26:36","slug":"most-romantic-in-the-world-no-freeways-through-the-center-of-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197043996","title":{"rendered":"Most romantic in the world &#8211; no freeways through the center of town."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Switchboard, from NRDC \u203a Kaid Benfield&#8217;s Blog<br \/>\nKaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities &amp; Smart Growth, Washington, DC<br \/>\nOne of my most popular recent posts was published last month on Valentine\u2019s Day.  In it, I pointed out that some of the cities considered the most romantic in the world \u2013 such as Prague, Paris, Lisbon, Rome, Vienna, and Venice \u2013 had a number of things in common: walkability, lively public spaces and thriving downtowns, a strong sense of place, good public transportation, and so on.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s something else they have in common: no (or almost no) freeways running through the center of town.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rss.nrdcfeeds.org\/~r\/switchboard_kbenfield\/~3\/coEKlzsbHcE\/freeways_without_futures.html\">https:\/\/rss.nrdcfeeds.org\/~r\/switchboard_kbenfield\/~3\/coEKlzsbHcE\/freeways_without_futures.html<\/a>oldId.20110331142636744<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Switchboard, from NRDC \u203a Kaid Benfield&#8217;s Blog Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities &amp; Smart Growth, Washington, DC One of my most popular recent posts was published last month on Valentine\u2019s Day. In it, I pointed out that some of the cities considered the most romantic in the world \u2013 such as Prague, Paris, Lisbon, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197043996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Most romantic in the world &#8211; no freeways through the center of town.&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197043996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197043996","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=197043996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197043996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197043996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197043996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197043996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}