{"id":215895,"date":"2010-01-22T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/22\/detroit-from-motor-city-to-urban-farm\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:37:36","slug":"detroit-from-motor-city-to-urban-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/215895","title":{"rendered":"Detroit: From Motor City To Urban Farm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/files\/2010\/01\/urbanfarm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4550\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/01\/urbanfarm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is car news, and it isn&#8217;t. But it is\u00a0definitely&#8230;interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit was once the 4th largest city in America and it held the title of Motor City because most of America&#8217;s cars came from there. Flash forward 40 years, and Detroit&#8217;s population has dwindled from a high of 2 million people to just over 800,000. The average price for a home in Detroit is $15,000, the lowest in the country. With so many empty spaces, criminals have no shortage of hideouts and drug factories. And with America&#8217;s auto industry still reeling from the recession, as well as having outsourced many jobs to other states (or countries), the future looks bleak for Detroit&#8217;s long-deferred recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Unless one millionaire gets his way, and turns the city into farms. Yes, farms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/22\/detroit-from-motor-city-to-urban-farm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Zsd_NGHUecc:vyO6hvd6I0w:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Zsd_NGHUecc:vyO6hvd6I0w:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Zsd_NGHUecc:vyO6hvd6I0w:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Zsd_NGHUecc:vyO6hvd6I0w:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Zsd_NGHUecc:vyO6hvd6I0w:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Zsd_NGHUecc:vyO6hvd6I0w:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Zsd_NGHUecc:vyO6hvd6I0w:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Zsd_NGHUecc:vyO6hvd6I0w:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/Zsd_NGHUecc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is car news, and it isn&#8217;t. But it is\u00a0definitely&#8230;interesting. Detroit was once the 4th largest city in America and it held the title of Motor City because most of America&#8217;s cars came from there. Flash forward 40 years, and Detroit&#8217;s population has dwindled from a high of 2 million people to just over 800,000. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}