{"id":83998,"date":"2017-12-01T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=83998"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:54:08","slug":"flashback-friday-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-212\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a photo of lagoon and bridge at Lansdowne Park, East St. Louis, Illinois from a 1910 postcard. The park, formerly known as Jones-Hall Park and now simply Jones Park, is the largest municipal park in East St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>In its heyday, the park was a gathering place for locals and out-of-towners. It hosted weddings, family reunions and other events. There was boating and fishing in the lagoon, swimming in the pool and sporting events at the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the park can be easily reached via the JJK MetroLink Station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.niu.edu\/2001\/ip011110.html\">Click here for more info on the park\u2019s history<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flashback1124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"856\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flashback1124.jpg 856w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flashback1124-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flashback1124-768x454.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a photo of lagoon and bridge at Lansdowne Park, East St. Louis, Illinois from a 1910 postcard. The park, formerly known as Jones-Hall Park and now simply Jones Park, is the largest municipal park in East St. Louis. In its heyday, the park was a gathering place for locals and out-of-towners. It hosted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[747,1225],"class_list":["post-83998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-flashback-friday","tag-trolley"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}