{"id":50083,"date":"2019-02-12T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=50083"},"modified":"2019-02-12T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:58:20","slug":"park-to-named-after-levar-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/02\/park-to-named-after-levar-burton\/","title":{"rendered":"Park To Be Named After LeVar Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento&#8217;s <em>Parks Commission<\/em> will rename two parks; one after <strong>LeVar Burton<\/strong>, and one after <strong>Ali Youssefi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Richfield Park<\/em> in Meadowview will be renamed <em>LeVar Burton Park.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Richfield Park<\/em>, three acres in total, was recently upgraded by the city. It features a nature-themed playground, fitness stations, basketball courts, a picnic area with shade canopy, and a turf amphitheater.<\/p>\n<p>Burton, born to American parents in West Germany, came with his family to Sacramento when he was three years old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s always been proud of his Sacramento roots and he continues to use his career and his influence to be a strong advocate for literacy for children,&#8221; said<strong> Brianna Moland<\/strong>, an assistant planner for the city.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a tweet reacting to the news, Burton said, &#8220;Wow, is all I can say as well!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The name changes must be approved by the City Council before they will take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento&#8217;s Parks Commission will rename two parks; one after LeVar Burton, and one after Ali&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[2794,3440,3133],"class_list":["post-50083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-levar-burton","tag-park","tag-sacramento"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BurtonRichfieldParkSacramentoBeej021219.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50086,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50083\/revisions\/50086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}