{"id":1971,"date":"2011-03-17T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2011-03-17T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:14:31","slug":"asphalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/asphalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Asphalt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cm1116-a1097-hydrant.jpg\" alt=\"every fire chiefs&#039; dream\"><br \/>\nHow much asphalt is enough?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After graduating from college with a civil engineering degree, I found myself working in my home town for a local engineering firm doing mostly municipal engineering (roads, sewer pipe, water pipe, stormwater). A fair percentage of my time was spent convincing people that, when it came to their road, I knew more than they did.&#8211;Charles Marohn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strongtowns.org\/journal\/2010\/11\/22\/confessions-of-a-recovering-engineer.html\">&#8220;Confessions of a Recovering Engineer&#8221;<\/a>, Strongtowns blog<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This urban landscape would be a dream come true for any fire chief. Ample room for the trucks to cavort, lots of defensible space, gigantic turning radii accommodated. The ultimate product of a <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/congdon-street\/\">standards and design<\/a> manual, a landscape where automobiles feel at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much asphalt is enough? After graduating from college with a civil engineering degree, I found myself working in my home town for a local engineering firm doing mostly municipal engineering (roads, sewer pipe, water pipe, stormwater). A fair percentage of my time was spent convincing people that, when it came to their road, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/asphalt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asphalt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}