{"id":339,"date":"2005-03-05T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T16:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=339"},"modified":"2005-03-05T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2005-03-05T21:00:40","slug":"8-wonders-of-north-carolina-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/8-wonders-of-north-carolina-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Wonders of North Carolina (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0807808423\/\">North Carolina Miscellany<\/a> [1962] whilst at the CuppaJoe Coffee Shop.<\/p>\n<p>The Seven [sic] Wonders of North Carolina<br \/>\n[as reported in the Greensboro Daily News 1956]<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncstatefair.org\/dorton.htm\">Cow Palace in Raleigh [Dorton Arena]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarheelpress.com\/Top10.html\">Old Fort&#8211;Ridgecrest Southern Railway [Andrews Geyser\/Loops.]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brpfoundation.org\/\">Blue Ridge Parkway<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Any mammoth textile mill especially those such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epodunk.com\/cgi-bin\/createPostcard.php?cardNum=309872\">Cone Mills<\/a> (thanks for the reference, Ed)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapel.duke.edu\/chapel\/building\/architecture\/tower.aspx\">Duke Tower [on Duke Chapel]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/tour\/LEVEL_2\/playmakers.htm\">[Old] Playmakers Theater at UNC-Chapel Hill<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us\/sections\/capitol\/default.htm\">[Old] State Capitol Building<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wrbr\/\">Wright Memorial at Kill Devil Hills<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What are our newer Wonders? Generic retro-downtowns in Planned Urban Communities? Fake 30s bungalows? MacMansions? Chiller plants? Airport terminals?<br \/>\nSubmit your favorites for this half century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found in the North Carolina Miscellany [1962] whilst at the CuppaJoe Coffee Shop. The Seven [sic] Wonders of North Carolina [as reported in the Greensboro Daily News 1956] Cow Palace in Raleigh [Dorton Arena] Old Fort&#8211;Ridgecrest Southern Railway [Andrews Geyser\/Loops.] Blue Ridge Parkway Any mammoth textile mill especially those such as Cone Mills (thanks for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}