
{"id":16568,"date":"2011-03-10T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2011-03-10T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:51:20","slug":"lillie-pratt-turning-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/03\/10\/lillie-pratt-turning-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Lillie Pratt turning 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/03\/10\/lillie-pratt-turning-83\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LillyPratt83.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"409\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LillyPratt83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LillyPratt83-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LillyPratt83-82x113.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LillyPratt83-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LillyPratt83-58x80.jpg 58w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEach spring, with the daffodils comes a Lillie. Lillie Mozelle Pratt, that is. It just wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be spring on Franklin Street without \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the last of the flower ladies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Lillie calls herself. I began buying February daffodils from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Miz Pratt\u00e2\u20ac\u009d back in 1966, so her claim rings true. She is celebrated now with a new greeting card painted by Brenda Behr of Behr Rabbit Studio, on sale for $5 at Charles House\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s University Florist on Franklin Street, right across from Lillie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post in front of the Bank of America. The proceeds from the sales of the cards go to help support Lillie, who will be turning 83 this spring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Thousand Words By Jock Lauterer Each spring, with the daffodils comes a Lillie. Lillie Mozelle Pratt, that is. It just wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be spring on Franklin Street without \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the last of the flower ladies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Lillie calls herself. I began buying February daffodils from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Miz Pratt\u00e2\u20ac\u009d back in 1966, so her claim rings true. She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16570,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions\/16570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}