{"id":5069,"date":"2010-09-25T04:12:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T04:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2010-09-25T04:12:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T04:12:46","slug":"paris-goes-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/paris-goes-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris goes green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/paris_green_champs_elysee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5068\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/paris_green_champs_elysee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/paris_green_champs_elysee.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/paris_green_champs_elysee-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/paris_green_champs_elysee-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/paris_green_champs_elysee-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The French farmer&#8217;s protested their financial plight in a charmingly French manner by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,1991378,00.html\">greening the Champ-Elysee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another unusual example of the trend towards green is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetsongreen.com\/2009\/02\/lost-in-paris-living-house-by-rsie-architects.html\">Lost House of Paris<\/a>. The occupants literally live within a greenery covered house. To travel green in the city of romance you simply phone a <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2008\/07\/08\/vectrix-serves-as-a-taxi-in-paris\/\">&#8216;Vectrix&#8217; taxi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Pierre Patel&#8217;s 1688 painting of Versailles (below)\u00a0 shows, axes can be green and they can be canals. And canals can be used for transport.\u00a0 Civic leaders need courage, imagination, wisdom &#8211; and a wealth of ideas from the design professions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Chateau_de_Versailles_1668_Pierre_Patel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5490\" title=\"Chateau_de_Versailles_1668_Pierre_Patel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Chateau_de_Versailles_1668_Pierre_Patel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Chateau_de_Versailles_1668_Pierre_Patel.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Chateau_de_Versailles_1668_Pierre_Patel-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Chateau_de_Versailles_1668_Pierre_Patel-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Chateau_de_Versailles_1668_Pierre_Patel-624x453.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French farmer&#8217;s protested their financial plight in a charmingly French manner by greening the Champ-Elysee. Another unusual example of the trend towards green is the Lost House of Paris. The occupants literally live within a greenery covered house. To travel green in the city of romance you simply phone a &#8216;Vectrix&#8217; taxi. As Pierre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10,34,35,16,18,24,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}