{"id":1199,"date":"2008-09-01T16:41:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2008-09-01T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T20:41:33","slug":"code-city-getting-public-law-out-from-behind-private-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/01\/code-city-getting-public-law-out-from-behind-private-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Code City: Getting Public Law Out From Behind Private Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day I hope to pen a piece that adequately sings the praises of Carl Malamud&#8217;s tireless work to make public work available to, you know, the public.\u00c2\u00a0 Today he announced the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/bulk.resource.org\/codes.gov\/\">Code City<\/a>, through which the public can now access -\u00c2\u00a0 without having to pay the publisher &#8211; many of the building safety codes that are incorporated into the laws of most states, counties, and municipalities (see, e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/bulk.resource.org\/codes.gov\/va_fire.pdf\">the fire code that is part of Virginia law<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Most anyone who has ever tried to access the building code for a project knows what an accomplishment this is.\u00c2\u00a0 For those that don&#8217;t know, I <em>highly<\/em> recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/publicresourceorg\/sets\/72157606911738805\/\">this brilliant little illustrated explanation<\/a> (just start with the top left photo and keep clicking through to the next photo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day I hope to pen a piece that adequately sings the praises of Carl Malamud&#8217;s tireless work to make public work available to, you know, the public.\u00c2\u00a0 Today he announced the release of Code City, through which the public can now access -\u00c2\u00a0 without having to pay the publisher &#8211; many of the building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}