{"id":150,"date":"2010-06-18T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T03:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=150"},"modified":"2010-06-18T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T03:09:08","slug":"an-annual-amount-of-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"An Annual Amount of Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Joplin&#8217;s first few years in the 20th Century, its ever growing population sent an ever growing amount of mail.\u00a0 A newspaper sketch decided to illustrate that amount of mail by showing how high it would stack in a single column.\u00a0 As noted, it would go well over the roof of the Keystone Hotel, the tallest building in town at that time (until eclipsed by the Connor Hotel).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4712825451\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"All the Mail in Joplin Stacked in A Column\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4018\/4712825451_23f6652f15_b.jpg\" alt=\"All the Mail in Joplin Stacked in A Column\" width=\"222\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Keystone Hotel, once the tallest building in Joplin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: Joplin Globe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Joplin&#8217;s first few years in the 20th Century, its ever growing population sent an ever growing amount of mail.\u00a0 A newspaper sketch decided to illustrate that amount of mail by showing how high it would stack in a single column.\u00a0 As noted, it would go well over the roof of the Keystone Hotel, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[328,31,189,338,607,609,608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}