{"id":504,"date":"2009-04-11T22:11:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-04-11T23:18:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T05:18:03","slug":"small-town-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Small-town America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three quick items:<\/p>\n<p>1) The town of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7991480.stm\">Winfield, Missouri elected Henry Stonebraker to a fourth term as mayor &#8211; several weeks after his death<\/a>. I wonder if he ran unopposed. If not, what does that say about his opponent?<\/p>\n<p>2) In Lander, Wyoming, there is a parking lot on the west end of town where you can find the following three businesses: a pet boarding\/grooming establishment, an animal hospital, and a taxidermy studio. I guess if the groomer slips with the shears, and the vet can&#8217;t save it, you don&#8217;t have to go far to find someone who can help you keep your pet around.<\/p>\n<p>3) Buford, Wyoming, is probably the smallest incorporated town in the US. It used to be the county seat for Laramie county, but people moved away.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/bendreth.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/04\/buford.JPG' title='Welcome to Buford'><img src='https:\/\/bendreth.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/04\/buford.JPG' alt='Welcome to Buford' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three quick items: 1) The town of Winfield, Missouri elected Henry Stonebraker to a fourth term as mayor &#8211; several weeks after his death. I wonder if he ran unopposed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}