{"id":395,"date":"2012-09-16T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2012-09-16T19:17:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T19:17:22","slug":"words-posted-on-a-sign-at-east-river-park-across-from-grand-streetlower-east-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/words-posted-on-a-sign-at-east-river-park-across-from-grand-streetlower-east-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Words posted on a sign at East River Park (across from Grand Street\/Lower East Side)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/words-posted-on-a-sign-at-east-river-park-across-from-grand-streetlower-east-side\/lawn-photo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lawn-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome. This lawn is restricted to picnics and passive recreation. Please be courteous and respectful to others, and keep the park clean.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Rules prohibit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Active sports<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dogs and pets<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Amplified sound<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Barbecues and open fires<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Illegal drugs and alcohol<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Littering and glass bottles<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am pondering the phrase passive recreation. I have walked by this sign for almost eight years but only noticed it for the first time last week. Apparently, I can admire the trees while sitting on the lawn but if I stood and performed jumping jacks, this would be prohibited. If I wrote a poem I could tell people that I had written it as an exercise in passive recreation. I don\u2019t think one would be allowed to move very quickly either. Walking might be OK but running would be considered active. I am considering how the creation of such space in a public park corresponds to the creation in one\u2019s mind of quiet, private areas. This seems to be one of my ongoing jobs as a poet: to continually create such space in order to be able to write and have a poem connect to the world at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome. This lawn is restricted to picnics and passive recreation. Please be courteous and respectful to others, and keep the park clean. Rules prohibit: Active sports Dogs and pets Amplified sound \u00a0Barbecues and open fires Illegal drugs and alcohol Littering and glass bottles I am pondering the phrase passive recreation. I have walked by this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}