{"id":258,"date":"2010-03-13T16:23:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/13\/providence-journal-editorial-new-bedford%e2%80%99s-back-to-shipping\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:24","slug":"providence-journal-editorial-new-bedfords-back-to-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/13\/providence-journal-editorial-new-bedfords-back-to-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence Journal Editorial: New Bedford\u2019s back to shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em>Providence Journal<\/em> has an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/opinion\/editorials\/content\/ED_newbed13_03-13-10_NNHNF8E_v43.3f8d007.html\" target=\"_blank\">editorial<\/a> noting the re-emergence of commercial shipping in New Bedford due to a recent dredging project and the city&#8217;s efforts to promote marine commerce.\u00a0 The editorial argues that Providence should be doing the same thing rather than pushing plans for condominiums and hotels that threaten existing working waterfront businesses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New Bedford isn\u2019t the only recently re-dredged port in the region, but it seems to be the one most aggressively courting new business. Revitalizing ports as working ports (i.e., shipping), with their well-paid workers, is much better for the economic health of such old ports as New Bedford and Providence than blocking them off with condos and other low-paying enterprises.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Providence Journal has an excellent editorial noting the re-emergence of commercial shipping in New Bedford due to a recent dredging project and the city&#8217;s efforts to promote marine commerce.\u00a0 The editorial argues that Providence should be doing the same thing rather than pushing plans for condominiums and hotels that threaten existing working waterfront businesses: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}