{"id":508,"date":"2015-06-18T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=508"},"modified":"2015-06-18T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:01:14","slug":"minor-differences-where-the-streets-have-two-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Minor Differences: Where The Streets Have Two Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video editing has become a bit overwhelming as our days have become very densely packed. While that&#8217;s going on, here&#8217;s a video on the street system in the US:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_59455\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZiMFbMioOlA?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>England generally doesn&#8217;t organise cities\u00a0into &#8216;blocks&#8217; as they mostly evolved from smaller settlements. Consequently, the streets tend to radiate out from centres and snake around geographical features.<\/p>\n<p>US cities are planned and the streets are organised around the grid system (partly thanks to Thomas Jefferson). The crucial element is that in one direction, the streets are numbered, rather than named, making it a map index. It makes it possible to use a street number and the name of the intersecting street (so far I&#8217;ve seen those called &#8216;avenue&#8217;) to pinpoint a location in a city.<\/p>\n<p>I very much like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video editing has become a bit overwhelming as our days have become very densely packed. While that&#8217;s going on, here&#8217;s a video on the street system in the US: England generally doesn&#8217;t organise cities\u00a0into &#8216;blocks&#8217; as they mostly evolved&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,15,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheyenne","category-minor-differences","category-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}