{"id":70306,"date":"2025-12-03T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:20:08","slug":"building-great-futures-for-50-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70306\/","title":{"rendered":"Building great futures for 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, Lee County\u2019s population was about 160,000. Fort Myers and Cape Coral were the county\u2019s only incorporated areas. Agriculture drove the economy, not tourism. There wasn\u2019t a whole lot for locals to do beyond the beaches, with just a handful of shopping plazas, movie theaters and recreational amenities at the time. Yet, even in a largely undeveloped community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/articles\/fort-myers\/building-great-futures-for-50-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifty years ago, Lee County\u2019s population was about 160,000. Fort Myers and Cape Coral were the county\u2019s only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-70306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}