{"id":1272,"date":"2007-09-15T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/ah-landfill\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T06:37:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T11:37:44","slug":"ah-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/ah-landfill\/","title":{"rendered":"ah, landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ever wonder just how much of modern manhattan is actual, literal landfill? <\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/mapmixer?lid=77c9df17&amp;pg=view\">this<\/a> map superimposing a map of lower manhattan in 1660 onto a map of lower manhattan today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"354\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/2006_09-map1660.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2007\/09\/13\/map_of_the_day_120.php\">Gothamist<\/a> for the link. I knew that they had used the excavated materials from building the world trade center foundation to build battery park, but I never realized just how much of modern lower manhattan that actually was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder just how much of modern manhattan is actual, literal landfill? Check out this map superimposing a map of lower manhattan in 1660 onto a map of lower manhattan today: Thanks to Gothamist for the link. I knew that they had used the excavated materials from building the world trade center foundation to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-kw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}