{"id":110,"date":"2022-08-12T04:38:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T04:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2022-08-31T04:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T04:40:40","slug":"a-new-orleans-planner-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/a-new-orleans-planner-builds\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Orleans Planner Builds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A proposal to remove a hated highway is caught in a maelstrom of politicking. But Amy Stelly is standing her ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amy Stelly is a&nbsp;planner&nbsp;by profession. But her beef with the Claiborne Expressway\u2014the roughly two-mile elevated highway that cuts through the historic neighborhood of Trem\u00e9, in New Orleans,&nbsp;essentially splitting its heart\u2014isn\u2019t theoretical, it\u2019s personal. Stelly lives in her childhood home, a sprawling century-old house, just 450 feet from the hulking overpass. She has no living memory of the highway\u2019s construction in the late 1960s. She was about eight years old when&nbsp;Claiborne Avenue, the oak tree\u2013lined Main Street of the predominantly African-American community, was permanently shrouded in concrete and steel. In the years following the highway\u2019s construction, scores of Black-owned shops, corner stores, restaurants, and clubs closed. \u201cI can only think that I was traumatized, because there are people my age who have vivid memories of the trees,\u201d she says. \u201cI hated the highway growing up, and always wanted to change it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal to remove a hated highway is caught in a maelstrom of politicking. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuma.sharkthemes.com\/architect-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}