{"id":233684,"date":"2016-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-sept-9-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-sept-9-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-sept-9-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor \u2013 Sept. 9, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Worth a thousand words?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Re: \u201cDiscover nature in Mission Valley\u201d [Volume 10, Issue 8 or <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2bCUBJ2\">bit.ly\/2bCUBJ2<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read your piece in the Mission Valley News concerning the proposed River Park and want to comment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I hope you keep a copy of the of the photo of the aerial view of the proposed River Park that accompanied the article for future reference.\u00a0Developers here in San Diego have made it a business model of &#8220;bait and switch&#8221; when it comes to civic improvements and I&#8217;m sure\u00a0the final product will look nothing like the artist&#8217;s rendering. It&#8217;ll be quite smaller, if indeed it comes off at all.<\/p>\n<p>One need not travel far from the proposed River Park, the Civita eyesore, to see an example of a developer promising the community much, but when actual ground is broken, the project takes another course.<\/p>\n<p>Promised parks and public infrastructure do not make money for a developer and more often than not an artist rendering is just a way for a developer to sell his\/her project to those that will make the decision to approve a project, as well as those in the surrounding community that will be impacted by the project. It&#8217;s just &#8220;eye candy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Stuart Rachmuth, San Diego<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worth a thousand words? Re: \u201cDiscover nature in Mission Valley\u201d [Volume 10, Issue 8 or bit.ly\/2bCUBJ2] Read your piece in the Mission Valley News concerning the proposed River Park and want to comment.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":233681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11557","_seopress_titles_title":"Letters to the Editor \u2013 Sept. 9, 2016","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11557,11551,11593,11552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-valley-news","category-news","category-no-images","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}