{"id":1768,"date":"2014-11-18T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2014-11-18T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:22:44","slug":"walking-is-going-places-on-the-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"Walking is Going Places | On the Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthecommons.org\/magazine\/walking-is-going-places-0\">Walking is Going Places | On the Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2em 0px 1.2em 0px;\">Walking is going places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2em 0px 1.2em 0px;\">Humans\u2019 most common pastime&#8211;forsaken for decades as too slow and too much effort&#8211; is now recognized as a health breakthrough, an economic catalyst and a route to happiness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2em 0px 1.2em 0px;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Real Simple<\/em>\u00a0magazine (circulation: 2 million) declared \u201cwalking America\u2019s untrendiest trend\u201d in its February 2014 cover story. A month later\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Builder\u00a0<\/em>magazine (a construction trade journal) announced on its cover, \u201cWalkability. Why we care\u2026and why you should too.\u201d\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0\u00a0 Simple: \u201cIncreasingly, the market is demanding places where homeowners can hoof it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2em 0px 1.2em 0px;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0weighed in last September quoting the new book\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">A Philosophy of Walking<\/em>, which asserts that walking \u201cmakes it possible to recover the pure sensation of being, to rediscover the simple joy of existing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking is Going Places | On the Commons. Walking is going places. Humans\u2019 most common pastime&#8211;forsaken for decades as too slow and too much effort&#8211; is now recognized as a health breakthrough, an economic catalyst and a route to happiness. Real Simple\u00a0magazine (circulation: 2 million) declared \u201cwalking America\u2019s untrendiest trend\u201d in its February 2014 cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[271,395,1231],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-environment-2","tag-health","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}