{"id":5132,"date":"2013-02-06T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2013-02-06T08:34:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:34:22","slug":"tree-named-for-washington-set-out-near-holyoke-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/tree-named-for-washington-set-out-near-holyoke-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Named For Washington Set Out Near Holyoke School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>05 July 1936<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5133\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2013\/02\/06\/tree-named-for-washington-set-out-near-holyoke-school\/05-jul-1936-washington-tree\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5133\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5133\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5133\" alt=\"Appleton Street School -- Tree Named for Washington\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/05-jul-1936-washington-tree.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/05-jul-1936-washington-tree.jpg 412w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/05-jul-1936-washington-tree-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Appleton Street School &#8212; Tree Named for Washington<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From 1886 to 1889 over a score of trees were planted in the Appleton Street school yard. These included mainly elms, maples and spruce trees. Of these now but two are left. Each tree was named after a man or woman of fame at the time &#8212; some local, some out of state-wide fame and some of international fame. The picture above shows the one at the northeast corner of the lot. it was named after George Washington. There is one on the southeast corner named after Horace Mann. The contractors have placed planks around each tree so that they will not come to harm during the erection of the soldier&#8217;s memorial building.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05 July 1936 From 1886 to 1889 over a score of trees were planted in the Appleton Street school yard. These included mainly elms, maples and spruce trees. Of these now but two are left. Each tree was named after a man or woman of fame at the time &#8212; some local, some out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[611,131,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132"}],"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=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}