{"id":7399,"date":"2015-12-13T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T20:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2015-12-13T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T20:59:20","slug":"lady-bird-johnson-would-be-pleased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/lady-bird-johnson-would-be-pleased\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bird Johnson would be pleased"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"planting<\/a>
The Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards<\/a> are working with the Charlottesville Tree Commission<\/a>, VDOT, Albemarle County, Monticello, and Piedmont Community College to plant trees in the median of Route 20 between the City Limits and Route 53, roughly 80 total, over the next 2-3 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"toting<\/a>
Tree Commissioner Paul Josey<\/a> and Charlottesville Planning Commissioner<\/a> Jody Lahendro shoulder a swamp white oak across Moores Creek. Landscape Architect Paul Josey is the person who created and fought for this project. Lahendro has advocated for an increase in CIP outlays<\/a> to plant trees in the City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"bare<\/a>
The first phase is entirely funded by the Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards, and trees are being purchased from Bremo nursery<\/a>, which is donating one of the Swamp White Oaks<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"working<\/a>
Working in the median is challenging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"many<\/a>
These trees will help to retain rainwater, create habitat and food for birds, clean the air, and improve the scenery along this roadway<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"tree<\/a>
To become a tree steward, you must first complete the training class. The class is a 10-week course consisting of lectures on a variety of topics as well as several field trips with information on tree identification and pruning techniques.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,24,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road","category-signs","category-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399"}],"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=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}