{"id":4154,"date":"2009-07-10T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2009-07-10T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T16:07:20","slug":"great-site-walkscorecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/great-site-walkscorecom\/","title":{"rendered":"Great site: WalkScore.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a great site mentioned on Facebook and wanted to post it.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkscore.com\">WalkScore.com<\/a> will rate the walkability of your neighborhood on a scale of 0 to 100, 100 being the best.\u00a0 A friend who lives in South Main posted the site this morning, and it rated his address as a 78.\u00a0 I typed in my address of 10 South Main, and it came back with a 94 rating.\u00a0 Nice!\u00a0 And about what I expected&#8230; within a quarter mile I have a ballpark, a theater, great restaurants, great bars, the river, the trolley,\u00a0several parks,\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n<p>The site promotes walkable neighborhoods and explains why walkability is important.\u00a0 Walkable neighborhoods promote friendships with neighbors.\u00a0 They strengthen local businesses, which benefit from foot traffic.\u00a0 They reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\u00a0 And, they allow you to stumble home drunk from bars without getting a DUI.\u00a0 (That last one wasn&#8217;t on the site&#8230; I added it.)<\/p>\n<p>I love the Downtown Memphis core&#8230; wouldn&#8217;t want to live anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a great site mentioned on Facebook and wanted to post it.\u00a0 WalkScore.com will rate the walkability of your neighborhood on a scale of 0 to 100, 100 being the best.\u00a0 A friend who lives in South Main posted the site this morning, and it rated his address as a 78.\u00a0 I typed in my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/great-site-walkscorecom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great site: WalkScore.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->