{"id":513769,"date":"2010-04-02T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011510437_chihulymuseumatseattlecenter.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-02T18:28:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:28:44","slug":"chihuly-museum-at-seattle-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/513769","title":{"rendered":"Chihuly museum at Seattle Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Think about the children<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a lifelong resident whose family has enjoyed the Seattle Center for generations, I cannot imagine a glass museum replacing the rides and games of the Fun Forest. [\u201cChihuly plan lauded at forum to discuss Seattle Center space,\u201d NWWednesday, March 31.]<\/p>\n<p>The city should be thinking about providing a facility that caters to fun activities such as skating, bowling, batting cages, arcades, etc. Every child in our family has enjoyed summers at the Fun Forest. I doubt they would have as much fun looking at colored glass.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Glenn Noller<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeing the future at the Seattle Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1962 when the Seattle Center was the site of the World\u2019s Fair, I remember walking around on the crowded, hot concrete all day and going home with an awful headache. It was years before I was drawn back.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I arrived at the Center too early for a program on a Sunday morning. Killing time, I walked everywhere and was surprised by the rich landscape plantings tucked all over the Center. They added magic between the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to imagine how drastically things can change in our familiar surroundings. But compare the Seattle skyline now to what it was 30 years ago. Hardly anyone lived downtown then, but look at the massive residential growth within a mile of the Seattle Center now.<\/p>\n<p>Future development will double and triple the number of people living downtown in the next 20 years. In that future, every single bit of green, open space we save or create will assume an importance that we can hardly imagine today.<\/p>\n<p>As Central Park is the heart and lungs of New York City, the Seattle Center could make a huge contribution to our shared well-being. Chances to save green open spaces are so rare and costly in Seattle, let\u2019s save what we can before the concrete closes in.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Nancy Keith, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about the children As a lifelong resident whose family has enjoyed the Seattle Center for generations, I cannot imagine a glass museum replacing the rides and games of the Fun Forest. [\u201cChihuly plan lauded at forum to discuss Seattle Center space,\u201d NWWednesday, March 31.] The city should be thinking about providing a facility that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513769","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}