{"id":650,"date":"2018-10-07T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2018-10-07T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T17:43:49","slug":"mystic-river-musical-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/07\/mystic-river-musical-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystic River Musical Fences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw something new while riding through the newly-renovated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/locations\/torbert-macdonald-state-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacDonald Park<\/a>\u00a0on the north bank of the Mystic River in Medford, MA.<\/p>\n<p>The park has been massively renovated, with extensive landscape maintenance, new paving on the old trails and walkways, new benches and performance space, and now, this this small but delightful amenity:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SD7hodAnrSg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw something new while riding through the newly-renovated MacDonald Park\u00a0on the north bank of the Mystic River in Medford, MA. The park has been massively renovated, with extensive landscape maintenance, new paving on the old trails and walkways, new benches and performance space, and now, this this small but delightful amenity:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-boston","category-e-bikes","category-misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-au","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":411,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/e-biking-muggy-early-autumn-ride\/","url_meta":{"origin":650,"position":0},"title":"E-biking: Muggy early-autumn  ride","author":"Fred Langa","date":"2018-09-15","format":false,"excerpt":"The Tufts boathouse at Mystic Lakes was ready for business today, but had no takers due to the still air and heavy overcast. 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