{"id":6616,"date":"2013-01-29T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:06:05","slug":"ashlands-plaza-before-the-face-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2013\/01\/ashlands-plaza-before-the-face-lift\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashland&#8217;s Plaza before the face lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/12D_1734RAW-downtown-ashland-xmas-lights-night.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/12D_1734RAW-downtown-ashland-xmas-lights-night.jpg\" alt=\"downtown ashland xmas lights night\"><\/a>\n<p>The plaza in Downtown Ashland was <a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2009\/10\/ashland-halloween-parade-on-the-plaza\/\" \/>once covered in trees<\/a>. Right now there is nothing but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tskibby\/8425991906\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">big mud hole<\/a>. Apparently, one of the trees was diseased and another had some sort of future problem. So nearly everything has been ripped out, and a new plaza will be emerging in the next few months. Things are supposed to look good again by the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of the last glimpse of one of the now gone trees. This tree was the last one in town to retain its autumn leaves&#8211;well into December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plaza in Downtown Ashland was once covered in trees. Right now there is nothing but a big mud hole. Apparently, one of the trees was diseased and another had some sort of future problem. So nearly everything has been ripped out, and a new plaza will be emerging in the next few months. Things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[206,197,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35724,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions\/35724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}