{"id":251,"date":"2010-09-08T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=251"},"modified":"2010-09-08T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:14:48","slug":"mining-and-picher-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Mining and  Picher, OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of\u00a0 Picher, Oklahoma is well known to locals of the Four State area.\u00a0 Discounting the disastrous tornado that ripped through Picher\u00a0not too long ago, the lead and zinc mining resulted in a dangerous contamination of the town.\u00a0 The mining in Picher arose from the mining in the\u00a0 Joplin area, after all, the town gains its name from one of Joplin&#8217;s earliest mining\u00a0entrepreneurs, O.S. Picher.\u00a0 Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/08\/ff_madmaxtown\/all\/1\"><em>Wired<\/em> magazine has written an article on the town<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Addititionally, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/video\/10400185\/independent-lens--the-creek-runs-red\">a streaming video\u00a0link to a entertaining documentary about Picher today and\u00a0the effects of its mining past<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth watching\u00a0if only for some video of\u00a0the process of mining, the same process used in the Joplin area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of\u00a0 Picher, Oklahoma is well known to locals of the Four State area.\u00a0 Discounting the disastrous tornado that ripped through Picher\u00a0not too long ago, the lead and zinc mining resulted in a dangerous contamination of the town.\u00a0 The mining in Picher arose from the mining in the\u00a0 Joplin area, after all, the town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,429],"tags":[1050,1049,1045,2910,68,1047,1046,1048,1044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}