{"id":241690,"date":"2025-09-20T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241690\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:03:08","slug":"city-ending-free-parking-at-balboa-park-called-almost-criminal-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241690\/","title":{"rendered":"City ending free parking at Balboa Park called \u2018almost criminal\u2019 \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cSan Diego approves parking fees for Balboa Park, but delays start date several months\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/09\/15\/san-diego-approves-parking-fees-for-balboa-park-but-delays-start-date-several-months\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 15<\/a>): It is a sad day in our history as a city when we begin charging people to park in our beloved treasure, Balboa Park. As a retired elementary school teacher, I know personally there are many families who cannot afford to pay to enjoy this beautiful place in our city. I find it deplorable and almost criminal to charge our citizens for this pleasure. Anyone and everyone should be free to experience this amazing place free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Judy Timmins, Spring Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cSan Diego approves parking fees for Balboa Park, but delays start date several months\u201d (Sept. 15): It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241691,"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-241690","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\/115237238733382975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241690","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=241690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}