{"id":633,"date":"2010-11-14T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=633"},"modified":"2010-11-14T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T12:28:17","slug":"great-suburban-boston-parks-menotomy-rocks-park-arlington-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Great Suburban Boston Parks: Menotomy Rocks Park, Arlington, Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Menotomy Rocks Park in Arlington, Mass., is a free-to-use 34-acre oasis located in the Jason Heights section of Arlington, Mass. With the scenic quarter-mile Hills Pond to stroll around (also some good fishing and winter ice skating here), a playground for the kids, and forested hilly, walking trails, Menotomy Rocks Park, thankfully, hangs onto to its simple recipe of being an old-fashioned park within a bustling town that has become more of an extension of Cambridge than the sleepy, working-class town that it was not too long ago. One complaint that you hear a lot &#8212; and it&#8217;s true &#8212; too many selfish, self-entitled dog owners that ignore the leash laws, making it awkward for others. Other than that, what a nice place to visit!<\/p>\n<p><em>Menotomy Rocks Park<br \/>\nJason St. (quarter of a mile west of Gray St. intersections)<br \/>\nArlington, Mass.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Menotomy Rocks Park in Arlington, Mass., is a free-to-use 34-acre oasis located in the Jason Heights section of Arlington, Mass. With the scenic quarter-mile Hills Pond to stroll around (also some good fishing and winter ice skating here), a playground for the kids, and forested hilly, walking trails, Menotomy Rocks Park, thankfully, hangs onto to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[275,1],"tags":[429,428,129],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}