{"id":450961,"date":"2021-11-22T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T04:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450961"},"modified":"2021-11-22T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T04:55:27","slug":"one-historic-black-neighborhoods-stake-in-the-infrastructure-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/one-historic-black-neighborhoods-stake-in-the-infrastructure-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"One historic Black neighborhood\u2019s stake in the infrastructure bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the days after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package that promises to pour money into America\u2019s aging infrastructure, several residents of a storied New Orleans neighborhood turned to the highway that divides their streets and pondered a common question: What does this mean for us?<\/p>\n<p>For decades, that highway \u2014 an elevated stretch of Interstate 10 that runs above North Claiborne Avenue in the Trem\u00e9 neighborhood \u2014 has been cast as a villain that robbed the historic African American community, taking many of its homes, businesses and a glorious strand of oak trees when it was built more than a half-century ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package that promises to pour money into America\u2019s aging infrastructure, several residents of a storied New Orleans neighborhood turned to the highway that divides their streets and pondered a common question: What does this mean for us? For decades, that highway \u2014 an elevated stretch of Interstate 10 that runs above North Claiborne Avenue in the Trem\u00e9 neighborhood \u2014 has been cast as a villain that robbed the historic African American community, taking many of its homes, businesses and a glorious strand of oak trees when it was built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}