{"id":22768,"date":"2025-09-17T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=22768"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:02:38","slug":"anstis-benfield","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/anstis-benfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Anstis Benfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a student at BU, Anstis Benfield led the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leventhalmap.org\/articles\/visualizing-change-in-boston-activism-over-time\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Save Our Cities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> movement to protest the Inner Belt Highway Project in Boston. Her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/historycambridge.org\/innerbelt\/speakers.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">continued lobbying and activism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contributed to the cancellation of the highway by Governor Francis Sargent in 1972.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23085,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22770,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22768\/revisions\/22770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}