{"id":557,"date":"2008-05-09T09:58:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2008-05-09T09:58:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T14:58:33","slug":"1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"1925"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, when I was out for my morning walk around Lansing, I noticed the dates on the sidewalks.  The section that I was walking on was poured in 1925.  It looked better than the section that was poured in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>This made me wonder why?   Was the concrete better in 1925?  Was the 1925 sidewalk used less than the 1975?<\/p>\n<p>And why do they sidewalk companies put their name  on the sidewalk?  I doubt that the 1925 sidewalk company is still in business.<\/p>\n<p>And why the date?  It is not as if someone is going to say, &#8220;That side walk is 83 years old.  Guess I&#8217;d better replace it.&#8221;  Or, &#8220;That sidewalk is pretty rough but it is only 30 years old so I guess it doesn&#8217;t need to be replaced.&#8221;  And, it is not like the historical society is going the specifically visit the site.<\/p>\n<p>The best that I can come up with is that it is just a sophisticated way to write your name in the cement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, when I was out for my morning walk around Lansing, I noticed the dates on the sidewalks. The section that I was walking on was poured in 1925. It looked better than the section that was poured in 1975. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s20gJN-1925","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}