{"id":180174,"date":"2024-09-08T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-embracing-city-transformation-by-walking\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T14:13:49","slug":"namibia-embracing-city-transformation-by-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-embracing-city-transformation-by-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Embracing City Transformation By Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Walking as a mode of transportation is the most basic and accessible form of movement, which relies solely on human effort.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Unlike motorised transportation such as cars, buses, and motorcycles, walking does not require fuel, extensive infrastructure, or significant financial investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">It stands apart from cycling, which requires a bicycle and often dedicated bike lanes, and public transportation, which depends on scheduled services and routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Walking is the original mode of transportation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409040408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking as a mode of transportation is the most basic and accessible form of movement, which relies solely on human effort. Unlike motorised transportation such as cars, buses, and motorcycles, walking does not require fuel, extensive infrastructure, or significant financial investment. It stands apart from cycling, which requires a bicycle and often dedicated bike lanes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6603,29209,4706,724,257,254,6240,11393],"class_list":["post-180174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-city","tag-embracing","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transformation","tag-walking"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}