{"id":121243,"date":"2017-10-04T03:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121243"},"modified":"2017-10-04T03:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:49:52","slug":"new-york-residents-seek-to-co-name-street-after-jimi-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/04\/new-york-residents-seek-to-co-name-street-after-jimi-hendrix\/","title":{"rendered":"New York residents seek to co name street after Jimi Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121248\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/414998754_8281729abb_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121248\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/414998754_8281729abb_z.jpg\" alt=\"Some New York City residents are petitioning to have a street in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood named in honour of musician Jimi Hendrix. (Photo by mirjoran\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/414998754_8281729abb_z.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/414998754_8281729abb_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some New York City residents are petitioning to have a street in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood named in honour of musician Jimi Hendrix. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mirjoran\/414998754\/in\/photolist-CEYEW-cBZ84j-cBZ89q-cBZ7Us-cBZ8gu-547jjJ-54357X-8jS1Uw-dn9G6w-4kkUkR-o8e9LV-hw4AVc-6tJjwM-aKtZTV-6BhRL3-edriJm-fFZJFy-6Z9iCd-7iGhha-8UscAt-qQhV4q-r8hAHa-595rA2-noHmJX-8Uvhw7\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mirjoran\/\">mirjoran\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Some New York City residents are petitioning to have a street in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood named in honour of musician Jimi Hendrix.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the petition are seeking to co-name West Eighth Street as \u201cJimi Hendrix Way.\u201d The New York Times reports the organizers say they believe the co-naming also would attract visitors to an area fighting gentrification.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Geist, a local store owner, says the block has \u201clost the magic and we want to bring that magic back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hendrix opened Electric Lady Studios on the block just before his death in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>To co-name a street, petitioners would have to make a proposal to the local community board before it could be proposed to the full New York City Council for a vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Some New York City residents are petitioning to have a street in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood named &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[12930,26019,26018],"class_list":["post-121243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-jimi-hendrix-way","tag-new-york-residents","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}