{"id":475996,"date":"2010-03-26T09:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:27:45","slug":"atlanta%e2%80%99s-urban-picnic-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475996","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta\u2019s Urban Picnic today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2873\" title=\"ASFC\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/ASFC-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"ASFC\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantastreetfood.com\/\"><strong>Atlanta Street Food Coalition<\/strong><\/a> will hold its version of a debutante ball today.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta&#8217;s Urban Picnic promises to be a food festival like no other. Spilling over the sidewalks surrounding the Sweet Auburn Curb Market downtown, it will offer a movable smorgasbord food-truck yummies. Banish all thoughts of funnel cakes and greasy fries and consider instead biscuit sandwiches, Korean BBQ tacos, Caribbean food, vegetarian samosas, locally made hot dogs and wood-fired pizza.<\/p>\n<p>Vendors begin slinging deliciousness at 11 a.m. All the details are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=359697185565&#38;ref=ts\">the event&#8217;s Facebook page. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spoke recently with one of the Street Food Coalition&#8217;s founders, local attorney Greg Smith. Since the summer of 2009, this group has been busy gathering supporters for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/6\/help-legalize-street-food-in-atlanta\">its petition<\/a> and trying to make sense of the permitting laws and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my opinion the biggest obstacle is the state public health  department,&#8221; says Smith. &#8220;It&#8217;s a result of policy,\u00a0 not a legislative thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the rules that &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Street Food Coalition will hold its version of a debutante ball today. Atlanta&#8217;s Urban Picnic promises to be a food festival like no other. Spilling over the sidewalks surrounding the Sweet Auburn Curb Market downtown, it will offer a movable smorgasbord food-truck yummies. Banish all thoughts of funnel cakes and greasy fries and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475996","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\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}