{"id":56,"date":"2010-03-17T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-03-17T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:21:16","slug":"celebrate-st-patricks-day-at-the-connor-hotel-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate St. Patrick&#8217;s Day at the Connor Hotel Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;only requirement is a time machine.<\/p>\n<p>Of those who lived in Joplin, the city claimed not a few number of sons of Ireland.\u00a0 Some of the city&#8217;s wealthiest citizens, such as Patrick Murphy and Thomas Connor, were the children of Irish immigrants or born in Ireland.\u00a0 In a tip o&#8217; the hat to Joplin&#8217;s Irish, presented below is a menu ad for the Connor Hotel&#8217;s restaurant.\u00a0 The Connor, named after Thomas Connor, was once the architectural centerpiece of Joplin&#8217;s downtown.\u00a0 Not bad for a true son of Ireland.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4440506065\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"An ad for the restaurant at the Connor Hotel\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2467\/4440506065_a775b58587_b.jpg\" alt=\"An ad for the restaurant at the Connor Hotel\" width=\"566\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1923 ad for the restaurant at the Connor Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0 Joplin Globe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;only requirement is a time machine. Of those who lived in Joplin, the city claimed not a few number of sons of Ireland.\u00a0 Some of the city&#8217;s wealthiest citizens, such as Patrick Murphy and Thomas Connor, were the children of Irish immigrants or born in Ireland.\u00a0 In a tip o&#8217; the hat to Joplin&#8217;s Irish, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[7,209,32,214,212,213,52,31,8,42,211,210,11,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}