{"id":224013983,"date":"2012-02-06T18:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=224013983"},"modified":"2012-02-06T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:06:23","slug":"seriously-moco-and-others-really-needs-young-people-to-stick-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=224013983","title":{"rendered":"seriously, MoCo [and others] really needs young people to stick around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dan Reed, Silver Spring, Maryland<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat I found most striking was the drop in the county&#8217;s young adult population. According to the Planning Department, Montgomery County has 15% fewer adults between the ages of 15 and 24 than we did in 2000.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;What&quot; draws young people is pretty simple: Jobs, reasonably priced housing, short commutes, proximity to shopping and entertainment, and increasingly, neighborhoods where you can walk\/bike\/take transit instead of driving. The &quot;how&quot; is more challenging. But we should start going after those solutions now rather than waiting until it&#8217;s too late.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justupthepike.com\/2012\/02\/seriously-moco-really-needs-young.html\">https:\/\/www.justupthepike.com\/2012\/02\/seriously-moco-really-needs-young.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dan Reed, Silver Spring, Maryland &#8230; What I found most striking was the drop in the county&#8217;s young adult population. According to the Planning Department, Montgomery County has 15% fewer adults between the ages of 15 and 24 than we did in 2000. &#8230; &quot;What&quot; draws young people is pretty simple: Jobs, reasonably priced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=224013983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;seriously, MoCo [and others] really needs young people to stick around&#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-224013983","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\/224013983","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=224013983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224013983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224013983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224013983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224013983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}