{"id":776,"date":"2019-05-09T21:32:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/05\/09\/201959revisiting-hamden\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:30:20","slug":"201959revisiting-hamden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/05\/09\/201959revisiting-hamden\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Hamden: Recounting the evolution from small town to rising city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">By Shayla Colon<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Dirt roads that went for miles, no dwellings in sight- just a lush grassland lined with hills of blossoming trees&#8211; that was Hamden in the 1600s. Once a rural region, Hamden has evolved into a thriving and developing city nearly 70 years later, changing from masses of open farmland to a bustling landscape with buildings on every corner. The engine driving this progression is people.<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:499.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:62.92584991455078%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hamden-Center-in-1936.png\" alt=\"Hamden center in 1936, courtesy of Dave Johnson\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hamden-Center-in-1936.png\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hamden-Center-in-1936.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"499x314\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Hamden center in 1936, courtesy of Dave Johnson\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5cd46f197817f72b88270ac3\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\">Hamden center in 1936, courtesy of Dave Johnson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Today, the small town is a developing city on the rise with stores in every corner and residents on every street.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Read the full story<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qujournalism.shorthandstories.com\/Revisiting-Hamden\/index.html\"><strong> here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Revisiting Hamden: this is the story recounting Hamden\u2019s development from a small town over time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,5,142],"tags":[7,385,386],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects","category-hamden","category-homepage","tag-hamden","tag-revisiting-hamden","tag-small-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}