{"id":73083,"date":"2026-05-05T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/new-orleans-moves-to-brighten-underserved-neighborhoods-lights-impact-people\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:58:15","slug":"new-orleans-moves-to-brighten-underserved-neighborhoods-lights-impact-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/new-orleans-moves-to-brighten-underserved-neighborhoods-lights-impact-people\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans moves to brighten underserved neighborhoods: \u2018Lights impact people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new initiative aims to repair broken and inadequate street lighting to help prevent crime <\/p>\n<p>During the 19th century, American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson penned the expression \u201cgas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police\u201d in his essay Worship. With regard to public lighting in American cities today, the phrase can have a double meaning \u2013 security or surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond simply making it safe for people to see at night, public lighting\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC8038535\/\">link to security<\/a> carries deeper significance in neighborhoods, especially regarding race and class. The use of public lighting has been viewed as a socioeconomic indicator that separates wealthy areas from less affluent ones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/05\/new-orleans-street-light-initiative\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new initiative aims to repair broken and inadequate street lighting to help prevent crime During the 19th century, American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson penned the expression \u201cgas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police\u201d in his essay Worship. With regard to public lighting in American cities today, the phrase can have a double &#8230; <a title=\"New Orleans moves to brighten underserved neighborhoods: \u2018Lights impact people\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/new-orleans-moves-to-brighten-underserved-neighborhoods-lights-impact-people\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Orleans moves to brighten underserved neighborhoods: \u2018Lights impact people\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}