{"id":3178,"date":"2017-07-29T20:02:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T00:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2017-07-29T20:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T00:02:37","slug":"virginia-city-nv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Virginia City NV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Civil War Samuel Clemens spent several years in and around Virginia City (see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain_in_Nevada\">a Wikipedia article<\/a> for some rather surprising details), and it was there that he first used the pen name Mark Twain.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cemeteries at Virginia City include some bits worthy of Twain&#8217;s descriptive and narrative genius. Here&#8217;s a small sample:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35156172994\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"duct tape disagreement\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4294\/35156172994_d3f416d981.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" alt=\"duct tape disagreement\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35614446550\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"VirginiaCity11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4317\/35614446550_8ca95fd8ba.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"VirginiaCity11\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35445768283\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Janie Brown Eyes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4318\/35445768283_9425221fa0.jpg\" width=\"347\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Janie Brown Eyes\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(and see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&#038;GRid=8423223\">more about her<\/a> via findagrave.com)<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Civil War Samuel Clemens spent several years in and around Virginia City (see a Wikipedia article for some rather surprising details), and it was there that he first used the pen name Mark Twain. The cemeteries at Virginia City include some bits worthy of Twain&#8217;s descriptive and narrative genius. Here&#8217;s a small sample: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-thanatos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}