{"id":145014,"date":"2025-08-14T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145014\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:04:09","slug":"50-years-ago-free-parking-was-part-of-citys-charm-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145014\/","title":{"rendered":"50 years ago, free parking was part of city\u2019s charm \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cReader offers a requiem for the San Diego that is no more\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/07\/24\/reader-offers-a-requiem-for-san-diego\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 24<\/a>): I completely echo the sentiments of Shoshana Egan on the present parking situation. When I moved to San Diego from the Bronx \u2014 last month was the 50th anniversary \u2014 one of the unexpected pleasures I discovered was the ability to drive anywhere and not have to worry about finding parking. It was always available and free.<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to poor economic planning, San Diego has become another big city mess and we are expected to pay for our leaders\u2019 incompetent management.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Goodhartz, Jamul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cReader offers a requiem for the San Diego that is no more\u201d (July 24): I completely echo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-145014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115027028430485558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}