{"id":2245,"date":"2013-12-10T16:56:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2013-12-10T16:56:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:56:19","slug":"whats-in-a-name-barrys-corner-vs-allston-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name: Barry&#8217;s Corner vs. Allston Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should <a title=\"Harvard Magazine: Barry's Corner development\" href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2012\/12\/plans-for-barry-s-corner-released\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard&#8217;s development<\/a> for the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue in Allston be designated &#8220;Allston Square&#8221; rather than &#8220;Barry&#8217;s Corner,&#8221; which is how that section was generally known before it was demolished in the 1960&#8217;s? \u00a0That suggestion, made by a local resident, has <a title=\"Googe Groups: Barry's Corner vs. Allston Square\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/AllstonBrighton2006\/QC54QzTbSKs\" target=\"_blank\">provoked a lively discussion<\/a> on Google groups community forum. \u00a0Does the neighborhood need a re-branding? \u00a0How should the history of the fight that led to the forced removal of 71 families be honored? \u00a0For a history of the area, check out <a title=\"BAHS: Barry's Corner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bahistory.org\/HistoryBarrysCorner.html\" target=\"_blank\">this excellent article<\/a> by Bill Marchione.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"\">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-text=\"What's in a name: Barry's Corner vs. Allston Square\" data-url=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=2245\" >Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Harvard&#8217;s development for the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue in Allston be designated &#8220;Allston Square&#8221; rather than &#8220;Barry&#8217;s Corner,&#8221; which is how that section was generally known before it was demolished in the 1960&#8217;s? \u00a0That suggestion, made by a local resident, has provoked a lively discussion on Google groups community forum. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28,54,21],"tags":[291,87,267,293,195],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allston","category-harvard","category-neighborhood-history","category-new-contruction","tag-allston","tag-barrys-corner","tag-brighton-allston-historical-society","tag-harvard","tag-neighborhood-history-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}