{"id":455,"date":"2003-07-28T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:58","slug":"new_tourist_dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/07\/28\/new_tourist_dis\/","title":{"rendered":"New tourist disinformation centre."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Burlington, we recently had a new parking garage built just across the street from us.  It also doubles as housing some government offices and a new tourist information centre on the first 2 stories.  (Additionally, there will be a cafe\/bakery opening soon to which I&#8217;m looking forward.)<\/p>\n<p>One slight problem, however, is that the city has started posting signs about the &#8220;new&#8221; downtown tourist information centre, with street signs that eventually direct people to Locust St., where the garage\/office building is located.  But they still haven&#8217;t put any signage up on the building itself.  There&#8217;s nothing that says &#8220;Here it is!&#8221; to people who turn onto the street.  (There are some small pieces of paper on the door, but nothing that&#8217;s visible from a passing car.)<\/p>\n<p>For anybody who lives here, it&#8217;s obvious &#8211; but people who live here don&#8217;t need the centre in the first place.  People who don&#8217;t live here (tourists) are just as likely to drive right on by without knowing that they&#8217;ve passed it.<\/p>\n<p>What we need now is a center for people who are trying to find the new center.  Or just the signage on the building that should have been there by now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Burlington, we recently had a new parking garage built just across the street from us. It also doubles as housing some government offices and a new tourist information centre on the first 2 stories. (Additionally, there will be a cafe\/bakery opening soon to which I&#8217;m looking forward.) One slight problem, however, is that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/07\/28\/new_tourist_dis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;New tourist disinformation centre.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}