{"id":914,"date":"2006-04-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/04\/05\/to-preserve-or-not-to-preserve-that-is-the-question\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T13:30:00","slug":"to-preserve-or-not-to-preserve-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/04\/to-preserve-or-not-to-preserve-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To Preserve or Not to Preserve, That is the Question&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\" size=2>Fellow preservationist, Cynthia Van Ness, posted a very interesting article on Buffalo Rising, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalorising.com\/city\/archives\/2006\/04\/snappy_answers_to_smart_q.php#commentsall\">\u201cSnappy Answers to Smart Questions\u201d<\/a>. In it, she attempts to answer some of the claims of a few detractors who view preservationists as \u201cobstructionists\u201d. It has raised some very interesting debate, so I thought I\u2019d continue it here and apply it to the east side.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=Helvetica size=2>While I confess that I am an avid preservationist and architecture buff, I sometimes disagree with my local colleages in their opinions of what should be saved. Take the grain elevators, for example. I think that while there are a couple viable adaptive reuse possibilities for them, it\u2019s not realistic that we can or even should save them all. Restore one as a monument to Buffalo\u2019s shipping history and surround it with a park. That\u2019s realistic, in my opinion.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow preservationist, Cynthia Van Ness, posted a very interesting article on Buffalo Rising, called \u201cSnappy Answers to Smart Questions\u201d. In it, she attempts to answer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-eK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}