{"id":759344,"date":"2022-01-20T20:47:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/worlds-smallest-park-returns-to-portland-ore-after-road-project\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T20:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:47:56","slug":"worlds-smallest-park-returns-to-portland-ore-after-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/worlds-smallest-park-returns-to-portland-ore-after-road-project\/","title":{"rendered":"World's smallest park returns to Portland, Ore., after road project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 20 (UPI) —<\/span> The completion of a road construction project in Oregon resulted in the return of the world’s smallest park — now located about 6 inches from its former location.<\/p>\n

Mill End Park, a tiny patch of green in the median of Portland’s Naito Parkway that received its first plants and its name from Oregon Journal reporter Dick Fagan in 1946, became a globally famous landmark as the world’s smallest park when it received recognition from Guinness World Records in 1971.\n<\/p>\n

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The tiny park was demolished as part of the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Better Naito Forever project, but Portland Parks & Recreation announced Mill End Park has now been reconstructed about 6 inches away from its former location.<\/p>\n

The park, which measures about 2 feet wide with a total surface area of 452 square inches, bears a new sign and a new cloverleaf park border.<\/p>\n

Portland Parks & Recreation said officials are hoping to hold a “rededication ceremony” for the park in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 20 (UPI) — The completion of a road construction project in Oregon resulted in the return of the world’s smallest park — now located about 6 inches from its former location. Mill End Park, a tiny patch of green in the median of Portland’s Naito Parkway that received its first plants and its name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}