{"id":86,"date":"2014-10-22T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/?p=86"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:56:00","slug":"love-and-hate-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/love-and-hate-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Hate, 88."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Route 88 runs right down the heart of most of Westport.\u00a0 A harsh concrete slab in the midst of a narrow whisp of a town.\u00a0 Its hard to claim it beautiful, hard to find what is lovable about a straight line in a willowy landscape.\u00a0 It is very much a piece of the Fifties in the middle of our\u00a0timelessness.\u00a0 It was started and finished in the fifties and sixties, as a connector from 195 to Horseneck.\u00a0\u00a0It is the longest state road to be contained all in one town, topping eleven miles.\u00a0 There is a lot of history here, even in our highways&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonroads.com\/roads\/MA-88\/\"> http:\/\/www.bostonroads.com\/roads\/MA-88\/<\/a>&#8230;, and it is clearly with a mix of chagrin and common sense that we all both love and hate our 88.<\/p>\n<p>There it is, all the time, sitting smack dab in the middle of everything.\u00a0 Our path to the beach,(<em>everyone<\/em>&#8216;s path to the beach!) \u00a0a shortcut to the schools, the library, the grocery, the churches, and to the\/by the\u00a0end of it all, the &#8216;Point&#8217;.\u00a0 It most definitely has its uses; it is a means to leave town for work, to move about in the fastest way possible&#8230;(I&#8217;m positive the Fire and Police Departments are mildly in love with it..) &#8230;\u00a0it is an everpresent and reliable shortcut- a way to avoid the country roads, and their treachery as the plows move into season.<\/p>\n<p>God knows, when there is a problem on 88, an accident, a breakdown, it is felt in a town-wide fashion.\u00a0 But we are blessed with our fine country roads, and circumventing the straight and narrow is always possible.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me&#8230; is it love or hate you feel for the Magnificent 88?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Route 88 runs right down the heart of most of Westport.\u00a0 A harsh concrete slab in the midst of a narrow whisp of a town.\u00a0 Its hard to claim it beautiful, hard to find what is lovable about a straight line in a willowy landscape.\u00a0 It is very much a piece of the Fifties in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/love-and-hate-88\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-and-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.welovewestport.net\/whatwelove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}