{"id":114,"date":"2011-08-15T14:34:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T14:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-04-27T15:14:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T19:14:56","slug":"parking-day-friday-september-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/parks-green-space\/parking-day-friday-september-16th","title":{"rendered":"Park(ing) Day: Friday, September 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span class=\"full-image-float-left ssNonEditable\"><span><img style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"\/storage\/PD_poster2011.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1313420431202\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/parkingday.org\/about-parking-day\/\">Park(ing) Day<\/a> is a worldwide event that encourages city residents to transform metered parking spaces into mini parks for&nbsp;<\/span>the day to draw awareness to the need for more urban open space.<\/p>\n<div>Raleigh&rsquo;s Park(ing) day will be held as a part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkcon.com\/\">SPARKcon<\/a>, the Triangle&rsquo;s creative festival, held in downtown Raleigh September 15-18. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>In support of the annual PARK(ing) DAY, greenSPARK is calling for designers to transform parking spaces along Fayetteville Street into mini-parks or <a href=\"http:\/\/my.parkingday.org\/events\/sparkcon-parking-day\">&ldquo;SPARKparks&rdquo;<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Downtown Living Advocates will transform two parking spaces along Fayetteville Street into urban open space during the festival. &nbsp;Our theme will be education and awareness of the amount of land currently used as surface parking and how these surface lots can have multiple uses. &nbsp;We will transform the spaces into a map of downtown indicating the land used as surface lots with bright colored paint. &nbsp;The map will be an interactive small scaled version of downtown and be used to facilitate discussion about what amenities are needed downtown, (i.e. grocery store, movie theatre, multi-use play field, library, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in volunteering for Park(ing) Day to help construct or participate during the festival weekend, please contact Kimberly Siran at <a href=\"mailto:streetscape@raleighdla.com\"><span>streetscape@raleighdla.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park(ing) Day is a worldwide event that encourages city residents to transform metered parking spaces into mini parks for&nbsp;the day to draw awareness to the need for more urban open space. Raleigh&rsquo;s Park(ing) day will be held as a part of SPARKcon, the Triangle&rsquo;s creative festival, held in downtown Raleigh September 15-18. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}