{"id":2447831,"date":"2019-08-21T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-airport-committee-gets-it-right\/"},"modified":"2019-08-22T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:52:29","slug":"aspen-airport-committee-gets-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-airport-committee-gets-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen airport committee gets it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I was so happy to read in the paper that the citizens committee has voted to scale back the proposed new Aspen\/Pitkin County Airport terminal (<a id=\"N0x1b0a940N0x1d1bf60:N0x1b0a940N0x1cc8ae0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/vision-process-hammers-out-new-aspen-airports-size-growth-rate\/\">\u201cCleared for planning,\u201d<\/a> Aug. 18, aspentimes.com).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is important that the terminal be appropriate for a small mountain town and welcoming to our visitors. Those who arrive should feel an experience that is different from other airports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Last year\u2019s rendering of the proposed terminal was so out of scale for Aspen. I hope the committee will remember this as they continue their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Alan Sirkin<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/aspen-airport-committee-gets-it-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so happy to read in the paper that the citizens committee has voted to scale back the proposed new Aspen\/Pitkin County Airport terminal (\u201cCleared for planning,\u201d Aug. 18, aspentimes.com). It is important that the terminal be appropriate for a small mountain town and welcoming to our visitors. Those who arrive should feel an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 12:12:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447855,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447831\/revisions\/2447855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}