{"id":7876,"date":"2019-08-15T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siteandinsight.com\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:02:26","slug":"a-fence-with-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/a-fence-with-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fence with a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fences\/\">my most recent post about fences<\/a>, a friend sent me a photo of\u00a0the fence around the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7877\" style=\"width: 5162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7877\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7877\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1659.jpg\" alt=\"You don't often see turtles on fences. Or at least not in my part of the world.\" width=\"5152\" height=\"3864\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You don&rsquo;t often see turtles on fences. Or at least not in my part of the world.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wondered if Missouri was the turtle state, and if not, what was the story behind the design?<\/p>\n<p>This information from a brochure about the Old Courthouse tells the tale:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A turtle design on the reproduction courtyard gates commemorates a turtle that once lived in the courthouse fountain.\u00a0 Legend claims that custodian James Quigley brought the turtle to the courthouse where it had the distinction of being called \u201cthe only thing connected with the building that did not require an appropriation of the taxpayers\u2019 money\u00a0\u00bb.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Sarah! Whether true of not, the story is a good one.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else have a good fence story to share? Or\u00a0a story about a turtle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading my most recent post about fences, a friend sent me a photo of\u00a0the fence around the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. &nbsp; &nbsp; I wondered if Missouri was the turtle state, and if not, what was the story behind the design? This information from a brochure about the Old Courthouse tells the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}