{"id":328,"date":"2010-11-29T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=328"},"modified":"2010-11-29T06:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:38:21","slug":"update-on-gryphon-building-and-dedication-of-joplin-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Update on Gryphon Building and Dedication of Joplin High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two articles concerning history in the <em>Joplin Globe<\/em> this weekend.\u00a0 The first is a further update on the recently renovated Gryphon Building.\u00a0 Last week we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=324\">referred to an article on the present status of the building and its progress in finding tenants<\/a>.\u00a0 In that article, it was mentioned that a restaurant would be entering the building.\u00a0 This weekend brought more news along that front.<\/p>\n<p>Richard and Amy Sanell, owners of the successful Cafe on the Route over in Baxter Springs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joplinglobe.com\/local\/x20127920\/Wally-Kennedy-Cafe-on-the-Route-chef-working-on-restaurant-in-Gryphon-Building\">will be the ones behind the Gryphon building restaurant<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Of interest, Richard Sanell suggests that the menu might be based upon previous menus of downtown&#8217;s former great dining locations, the Connor hotel and the House of Lords.\u00a0 More info on the Sanells and their plans can be found in the article.<\/p>\n<p>The other article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joplinglobe.com\/local\/x1293919525\/Brad-Belk-Joplin-High-School-dedicated-in-November-1958\">a short write up by Joplin Museum Director, Brad Belk, on the dedication of Joplin High School in 1958<\/a>.\u00a0 The article briefly covers the decisions behind building the new school, the funding measures that succeeded and failed, and the final result with some specifics, such as the number of bricks used in the school&#8217;s construction.<\/p>\n<p>We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Now back to the trenches!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two articles concerning history in the Joplin Globe this weekend.\u00a0 The first is a further update on the recently renovated Gryphon Building.\u00a0 Last week we referred to an article on the present status of the building and its progress in finding tenants.\u00a0 In that article, it was mentioned that a restaurant would be [&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":[1245,1138,1246,7,760,758,677,328,124,200,31,702,1243,676,1244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}