{"id":148,"date":"2022-08-21T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T10:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2022-08-21T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T10:53:59","slug":"the-new-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/2022\/08\/21\/the-new-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bridge202208.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bridge202208.jpg 524w, https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bridge202208-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like it.  It&#8217;s simple. Traffic from the north goes straight onto QV St and into town. Traffic from the east goes under the bridge along Beach Street, from which drivers will easily find half a dozen ways to get into the &#8216;City&#8217;.  There are options for cyclists and pedestrians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing I don&#8217;t like &#8211; and it&#8217;s barely relevant &#8211; is keeping the &#8216;Naval Store&#8217; in its prominent place. It&#8217;s a fkn shed! All my (long) life I&#8217;ve been dismayed at having to look at this  shit building when arriving in Freo by car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the wooden bridge is gone! It was well past its use-by date, and not a thing of beauty. Vale!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/bridges\/bridge2020.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like it. It&#8217;s simple. Traffic from the north goes straight onto QV St and into town. Traffic from the east goes under the bridge along Beach Street, from which drivers will easily find half a dozen ways to get into the &#8216;City&#8217;. There are options for cyclists and pedestrians. The only thing I don&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/2022\/08\/21\/the-new-bridge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New Bridge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremantlestuff.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}