{"id":4641,"date":"2012-04-10T06:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2012-04-10T06:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:57:52","slug":"french-villagers-mourn-death-of-miss-belle-skinner-of-holyoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/french-villagers-mourn-death-of-miss-belle-skinner-of-holyoke\/","title":{"rendered":"French Villagers Mourn Death of Miss Belle Skinner, of Holyoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10 April 1928<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4643\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hattonsnow.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4643\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4643\" title=\"Ch\u00c3\u00a2teau de Hattonch\u00c3\u00a2tel in winter\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hattonsnow-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ch\u00c3\u00a2teau de Hattonch\u00c3\u00a2tel in winter\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hattonsnow-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hattonsnow.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ch\u00c3\u00a2teau de Hattonch\u00c3\u00a2tel in winter<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sorrow at Hatton-Chattel Which She Had Entirely Rebuilt Into model Community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hattonchatel, France, April 9 &#8212; (AP) This little village, completely destroyed during the World War and then entirely rebuilt into a model community by Miss Belle Skinner of Holyoke, Mass., went into mourning today on receipt of word that Miss Skinner had died in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The work of rehabilitation, undertaken through the generosity of the American woman, had just been finished and the architect employed upon it had sent word to here to attend the official ceremony of the resurrection of the village which several French ministers planned to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Miss Skinner never saw complete the beautiful model community which she had built from the ruins of the war was particularly regretted by the grateful villagers.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>, image Wiki commons, public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 April 1928 Sorrow at Hatton-Chattel Which She Had Entirely Rebuilt Into model Community Hattonchatel, France, April 9 &#8212; (AP) This little village, completely destroyed during the World War and then entirely rebuilt into a model community by Miss Belle Skinner of Holyoke, Mass., went into mourning today on receipt of word that Miss Skinner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,351],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4650,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}