{"id":285,"date":"2009-02-02T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/orphan-photo-4\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T19:26:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:26:49","slug":"orphan-photo-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/orphan-photo-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphan Photo #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Orphan 017-A\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/SYeumekVsMI\/AAAAAAAAC8k\/0azxjhrkyC8\/Orphan%20017-A%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"300\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This postcard photo was rescued from the Antique Mall in El Paso, Illinois, by me, on 05 October 2008.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>The message reads:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Hello Ida.\u00a0 We are all well.\u00a0 The weather is very dry here.\u00a0 Harry Duncan and Hattie was out to visit us.\u00a0 We had a big fire in Dayton it burnt one block on Main St.\u00a0 It started in the Exchange Hotel and burnt to the Bank.\u00a0 One woman burnt and died Wednesday morning.\u00a0 Will write you soon, ans soon.\u00a0 Good by, From Clara<\/p>\n<p>There is no other identifying information, postmark, date, or location.<\/p>\n<p>I got this one simply because of the story.\u00a0 I did a quick (very quick I might add) to see if I could find out more about this fire.\u00a0 Oddly enough, the first search result was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/leadertimes\/s_586666.html\">article<\/a> written in September 2008 about the &#8220;100th anniversary&#8221; of the fire.\u00a0 So based on that info, this postcard was probably written in September 1908.\u00a0 The end of the article provides more information about the fire and the woman who died that was referenced in the postcard.\u00a0 Pretty interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This postcard photo was rescued from the Antique Mall in El Paso, Illinois, by me, on 05 October 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orphan-photos-unidentified","category-wwtts","cat-38-id","cat-36-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-4B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}