{"id":185,"date":"2010-07-12T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=185"},"modified":"2010-07-12T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T18:26:04","slug":"more-coverage-on-the-union-dept-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"More Coverage on the Union Depot Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4775589608\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Support the renovation of the Joplin Union Depot as a new home for the Joplin Museum Complex!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4082\/4775589608_5c5db7edea.jpg\" alt=\"Support the renovation of the Joplin Union Depot as a new home for the Joplin Museum Complex!\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Support the renovation of the Joplin Union Depot as a new home for the Joplin Museum Complex!<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nOn Sunday, July 11, 2010, the <em>Joplin Globe<\/em> featured two articles on the Union Depot.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joplinglobe.com\/local\/x739950999\/100th-birthday-could-bring-rebirth-for-historic-depot\">The first article includes a brief history of the depot<\/a>, when it was built, as well efforts twenty some years ago to renovate it (which only succeeded in putting on a new roof and new stucco on the walls).\u00a0 Also in the article are some quotations from Clair Goodwin, president of the museum board, who appears reticent about the proposal.\u00a0 A quote is also offered from Allen Shirley, president of the Joplin Historical Society, again along the lines of hesitance, this time due to space issues.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=182\">Historic Joplin yesterday posted a response<\/a> to the current management of the Joplin Museum Complex with regard to these quotations.<\/p>\n<p>The second article featured<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joplinglobe.com\/local\/x279774657\/Contractor-Union-Depot-built-to-last-forever\"> a walk through with David Glenn<\/a>, a contractor and owner of Glenn Commercial Group, who participated in the attempt to renovate the depot twenty some years ago.\u00a0 In it, Glenn points out how the building is in a good position structurally and has a relatively new roof.\u00a0\u00a0 Included with the article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dl7EmOXgC0I\">an interesting video of the walk through with Glenn and a<em> Globe<\/em> reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, July 11, 2010, the Joplin Globe featured two articles on the Union Depot.\u00a0 The first article includes a brief history of the depot, when it was built, as well efforts twenty some years ago to renovate it (which only succeeded in putting on a new roof and new stucco on the walls).\u00a0 Also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,340],"tags":[755,756,328,318,678,31,341,342,702,676,670],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}