{"id":5788,"date":"2009-07-15T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/ten-bold-ideas-for-the-future-of-long-beach\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:45:00","slug":"ten-bold-ideas-for-the-future-of-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/ten-bold-ideas-for-the-future-of-long-beach","title":{"rendered":"Ten Bold Ideas For The Future Of Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 1ex;\">\n<div>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/s_image1247680820-3487.jpg\" align=\"right\">A little over a year ago I asked  readers to submit ideas for the <\/font><a style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbpost.com\/brian\/1165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Top  Ten Worst Decisions in Long Beach History<\/span><\/font><\/a><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">.&nbsp;  Having <\/font><a style=\"font-family: yui-tmp;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbpost.com\/brian\/1185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">identified<\/span><\/a><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\"> those fateful, course-changing events  for the city, my question then was \u201cnow what?\u201d<\/font>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">Since then I have touched upon  the need for the city to <\/font><a style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbpost.com\/brian\/1240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">be  bold<\/span><\/font><\/a><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">, and to shift  our collective <\/font><a style=\"font-family: yui-tmp;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbpost.com\/brian\/2287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">thinking<\/span><\/a><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">, to realize the opportunities that Long  Beach\u2019s geography, location and built form provides.&nbsp; Now, I  am charging the readers to help develop ten bold visions for Long Beach  to become the great city many of us know it can be.<\/font>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">How would you alter the city\u2019s  built environment for the better?&nbsp; Would it include removing the  breakwater?&nbsp; Restoring the Los Cerritos Wetlands?&nbsp; Or do you  have a bold idea to share?&nbsp; <\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"2\">The final list will be selected  by a committee made up of lbpost.com writers and the managing editor.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After identifying the ten worst decisions in Long Beach history, Brian Ulaszewski is asking you to look to the future with your bold, new ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":70279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}