{"id":1233,"date":"2010-04-21T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2010-05-19T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:03:05","slug":"floral-park-boulders-little-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Floral Park:  Boulder&#8217;s &#8220;Little Russia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mgerwing.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/21\/boulder-historic-district-floral-park\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/floral-park-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1940, eight Boulder professors pooled their resources and purchased  a complete undeveloped block in the recently platted lots south of  Chautauqua. \u00a0Their plan was to build their houses around a shared common  space, providing a larger outdoor area for kids and family and  protecting views to the mountains. \u00a0In the West, where individualism  reigns supreme, this act of enlightened semi-communal planning was  dubbed \u201cLittle Russia.\u201d\u00a0 Read Mark Gerwing&#8217;s tour of Boulder&#8217;s historic <a href=\"http:\/\/mgerwing.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/21\/boulder-historic-district-floral-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">Floral Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1940, eight Boulder professors pooled their resources and purchased a complete undeveloped block in the recently platted lots south of Chautauqua. \u00a0Their plan was to build their houses around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,7],"tags":[122,103],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-floral-park","category-neighborhoods","tag-preservation-floral-park","tag-historic-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}