{"id":5844,"date":"2014-03-12T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2014-03-12T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:29:51","slug":"aurora-needs-to-rethink-sports-facility-strategy-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-needs-to-rethink-sports-facility-strategy-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora needs to rethink sports facility strategy: Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Re: Sport Dome could come under ownership of Town, February 27, 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that we have gone mad by providing year- round sports facilities for soccer, golf and tennis in the winter, and hockey in the summer. Obviously there is a strong sports lobby in Aurora, particularly in the Town administration.<br \/>\nIt is bad enough when private enterprise provides these facilities in artificial environments which consume energy from fossil fuels especially as we experience the extremes of climate change.<br \/>\nCouncil should be promoting more neighborhood outdoor ice rinks, open playing fields for pick-up recreation, and cross country ski trails.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRobert Cook<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Sport Dome could come under ownership of Town, February 27, 2014) It seems to me that we have gone mad by providing year- round sports facilities for soccer, golf and tennis in the winter, and hockey in the summer. Obviously there is a strong sports lobby in Aurora, particularly in the Town administration. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}