{"id":10946,"date":"2017-10-02T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2017-10-02T20:04:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T19:04:27","slug":"the-promenade-plantee-predates-the-highline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-promenade-plantee-predates-the-highline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Promenade Plantee predates the Highline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10947\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Promenade_plant\u00e9e_paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10947\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Promenade_plant\u00e9e_paris.jpg\" alt=\"The Promenade Plantee is older than the Highline and is spatially more varied\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Promenade_plant\u00e9e_paris.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Promenade_plant\u00e9e_paris-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Promenade_plant\u00e9e_paris-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Promenade Plantee is older than the Highline and is spatially more varied<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I wonder why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/gardens\/high_line_new_york_city_landscape_urbanism\">the Highline in New York City<\/a> has become much more famous than its older predecessor, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/gardens\/promenade_plantee\"><em>Promenade Plantee in Paris<\/em><\/a>. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a consequence of the design, the location or the scenic quality. \u00a0Could the explanation be an application of triumphal American marketing to the Highline? \u00a0Or does the Highline have more oomph? Paris is fast becoming a cycling city and the Promenade offers a great ride.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden_tours\/in\/france\">Garden Tours in France<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why the Highline in New York City has become much more famous than its older predecessor, the Promenade Plantee in Paris. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a consequence of the design, the location or the scenic quality. \u00a0Could the explanation be an application of triumphal American marketing to the Highline? \u00a0Or does the Highline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,12,242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10950,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions\/10950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}