{"id":184,"date":"2016-11-30T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/?p=184"},"modified":"2016-12-13T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T03:12:07","slug":"184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/2016\/11\/30\/184\/","title":{"rendered":"Olmsted&#8217;s Central Park Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nyhistory.tumblr.com\/post\/84138556839\/april-28-1858-the-first-prize-of-2000-is\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/files\/2016\/11\/Olmsted-273x210.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/nyhistory.tumblr.com\/post\/84138556839\/april-28-1858-the-first-prize-of-2000-is\" width=\"273\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/files\/2016\/11\/Olmsted-273x210.jpg 273w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/files\/2016\/11\/Olmsted-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/files\/2016\/11\/Olmsted-651x500.jpg 651w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/files\/2016\/11\/Olmsted.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olmsted&#8217;s Central Park Plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The image above is Frederick Law Olmsted\u2019s original design for Central Park. As Olmsted writes in his \u201cPassages in the Life of an Unpractical Man,\u201d \u201cproperly planned and managed public recreation grounds would have a most civilizing and refining influence on the people\u201d (241). Parks became a tranquil escape for the fast paced lifestyle of New Yorkers. \u00a0Below is a current image of Central Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image above is Frederick Law Olmsted\u2019s original design for Central Park. As Olmsted writes in his \u201cPassages in the Life of an Unpractical Man,\u201d \u201cproperly planned and managed public recreation grounds would have a most civilizing and refining influence on the people\u201d (241). Parks became a tranquil escape for the fast paced lifestyle of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-image-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/litandthecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}