{"id":2028,"date":"2020-05-12T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2020-05-12T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T18:59:13","slug":"central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/central-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Central Park was designed by landscape architect <\/span>Frederick Law Olmsted<\/span><\/a> and architect\/landscape designer <\/span>Calvert Vaux<\/span><\/a> in the late 19th<\/sup> century. In many ways it\u2019s one of the most surprising and delightful features of Manhattan. More than just stretches of grass and stands of trees, it was designed to be a recreation center for the city and includes an amazing variety of things to do, including walking and biking trails, a zoo, amusement park, and an assortment of monuments, fountains, bridges, ponds, fantastical buildings, and even a theater.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Central Park Tree & Bridge
\nJet Lowe \/ Public domain<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve visited Central Park a couple of times but never spent very much time there. A few years ago while on a convention further downtown I went with a small group of other people to the park and we walked around the southern end of it. We glanced in at the zoo, followed a couple of paths for a bit and saw one or two of the monuments. Someday I hope to go back and take advantage of a lot more of what the park has to offer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Central Park Lake & Stone Arch<\/strong>
\nDietmar Rabich \/ Wikimedia Commons \/ \u201cNew York City (New York, USA), Central Park — 2012 — 6731\u201d \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bethesda Fountain<\/strong>
\nSidvics \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)<\/p>\n

No Time for Regrets is available on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Central Park was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and architect\/landscape designer Calvert Vaux in the late 19th century. In many ways it\u2019s one of the most surprising and delightful features of Manhattan. More than just stretches of grass …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,157,7,62],"tags":[169,167,168,94,166],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-new-york","category-romance","category-travel","tag-bridges","tag-central-park","tag-fountains","tag-new-york","tag-no-time-for-regrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}