{"id":3752,"date":"2010-08-21T10:08:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T10:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2010-08-21T10:08:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T10:08:32","slug":"gourmet_food_tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3752","title":{"rendered":"Gourmet Food Trucks in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/0b957db6-abe9-11df-bfa7-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss\">Carolyn Lyons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>Meetings of the five-member Transportation Committee of the Los Angeles City Council tend to be rather quiet affairs. But earlier this month, 150 people crammed into Room 1010 at City Hall to debate LA\u2019s latest gastronomic craze: gourmet food trucks.<br \/>\nTo their fans, the trucks are a welcome addition to the city\u2019s food scene, parking outside shops and offices at lunchtimes and congregating on Friday nights to create mini food festivals. To their critics, they are a menace, stealing trade from restaurants, creating litter, lacking proper licences and regulation, and clogging the parking places of entire streets.<br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want to shut down the trucks but we do need to work this out,\u201d says councillor Tom LeBonge. \u201cMany of the truck operators want free enterprise and don\u2019t like government regulation, but we have to act before it becomes a bigger problem.\u201d<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Lyons: Meetings of the five-member Transportation Committee of the Los Angeles City Council tend to be rather quiet affairs. But earlier this month, 150 people crammed into Room 1010 at City Hall to debate LA\u2019s latest gastronomic craze: gourmet food trucks. To their fans, the trucks are a welcome addition to the city\u2019s food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}