{"id":320150,"date":"2025-08-05T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320150\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:34:09","slug":"london-commuters-a-tree-is-on-its-way-can-it-save-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320150\/","title":{"rendered":"London commuters, a tree is &#8216;on its way&#8217;. Can it save you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, there is now a growing sense among scientists and policymakers that humans are not meant to live in cities at all \u2013 that, as the biologist Edward O. Wilson once argued, we evolved not to be surrounded by streets and buildings, but by plants, rivers, and other forms of life. From here, it\u2019s a short jump to the idea that, however piecemeal, we should return our urban spaces to this biological ideal \u2013 that a strong dose of medicinal nature (tree on its way!) will finally heal the sickly city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indeed, there is now a growing sense among scientists and policymakers that humans are not meant to live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,2737,2311,393,4884,257,218,38412,28671,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-320150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-square-mile","16":"tag-trees","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114976893419134366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}