{"id":5470,"date":"2012-02-05T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2012-02-04T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:05:36","slug":"revitalizing-rutvegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/02\/05\/revitalizing-rutvegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Revitalizing RutVegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7dvt.com\/2012rutland\">7 Days<\/a> featured a great article on Rutland, Vermont. Rutland&#8217;s a city with reputation, called &#8220;RutVegas&#8221; by some and &#8220;the armpit of Vermont&#8221; by others. But as 7 Day&#8217;s Kathryn Flagg reports, Rutland is in the midst of some sort of renaissance. People are moving back and trying to revitalize the downtown. The outcome, though, is unclear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This leaves Rutland in the position of many small, once-bustling industrial towns in America: casting around for what\u2019s next. Finding that thing \u2014 green energy? Local foods? New farms? \u2014 and agreeing on it can be tough for a community divided between can-do youngsters and a population segment that\u2019s reticent in the face of change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Burlington, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7dvt.com\/2012plan-btv\">Project BTV<\/a> is trying to involve community members in downtown planning, but with mixed results.<\/p>\n<p>Rejuvenating a town or city is tough work. All across Vermont and the North Country, people are thinking about how to make their communities prosperous, sustainable, nice place to live. I&#8217;m wondering&#8211;have you seen revitalization efforts at work in your towns? Do you agree with them, and have they worked? What makes a community vibrant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week 7 Days featured a great article on Rutland, Vermont. Rutland&#8217;s a city with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}