{"id":409,"date":"2011-03-18T06:39:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=409"},"modified":"2011-03-18T06:39:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:39:20","slug":"past-and-present-first-methodist-church-of-joplin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Past and Present: First Methodist Church of Joplin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstunitedjoplin.com\/#\/fumc\">one of Joplin&#8217;s oldest congregations<\/a>, the First Methodist Church was built in 1905.  Two years later, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=153\">church was host to one of Missouri&#8217;s greatest musicians, John William Boone, otherwise, and more popularly, known as &#8220;Blind Boone.&#8221;<\/a> Below are three images of the church which approximately span the building&#8217;s 106 year history.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5535931423\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"First Methodist Church of Joplin Missouri\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5251\/5535931423_e91da6a5ed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image dates from at least 1906, which would place it within a year or so of the church&#39;s construction.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5535931685\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"First Methodist Church of Joplin Missouri\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5258\/5535931685_c26169965d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image was taken sometime after it was built in 1905 and before the church lost its spire.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5535931297\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"First Methodist Church of Joplin - Present Day\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5178\/5535931297_1da338f709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Methodist Church as of Summer 2010<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home to one of Joplin&#8217;s oldest congregations, the First Methodist Church was built in 1905. Two years later, the church was host to one of Missouri&#8217;s greatest musicians, John William Boone, otherwise, and more popularly, known as &#8220;Blind Boone.&#8221; Below are three images of the church which approximately span the building&#8217;s 106 year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39],"tags":[1561,847,1558,1559,636,328,31,1560,1159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}