{"id":313625898,"date":"2014-12-09T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=313625898"},"modified":"2014-12-09T22:18:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T22:18:18","slug":"canal-towns-program-plugs-businesses-into-the-enormous-potential-of-trail-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=313625898","title":{"rendered":"Canal Towns Program Plugs Businesses into the Enormous Potential of Trail Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jake Lynch, Rails To Trails<br \/>\n&quot;When coal mining died and the railroads left, a lot of the towns really struggled. What the trail has done has brought that transportation corridor back to them. And it&#8217;s actually helped to sustain businesses and revitalize the downtowns.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 Bill Atkinson, Maryland Department of Planning<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.railstotrails.org\/trailblog\/2014\/september\/01\/canal-towns-program-plugs-businesses-into-the-enormous-potential-of-trail-tourism\">https:\/\/www.railstotrails.org\/trailblog\/2014\/september\/01\/canal-towns-program-plugs-businesses-into-the-enormous-potential-of-trail-tourism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jake Lynch, Rails To Trails &quot;When coal mining died and the railroads left, a lot of the towns really struggled. What the trail has done has brought that transportation corridor back to them. And it&#8217;s actually helped to sustain businesses and revitalize the downtowns.&quot; \u2014 Bill Atkinson, Maryland Department of Planning &#8230; https:\/\/www.railstotrails.org\/trailblog\/2014\/september\/01\/canal-towns-program-plugs-businesses-into-the-enormous-potential-of-trail-tourism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313625898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-paths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313625898","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=313625898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313625898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313625898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313625898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313625898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}