{"id":624,"date":"2016-08-31T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=624"},"modified":"2018-01-09T00:25:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T05:25:04","slug":"palmetto-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/31\/palmetto-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmetto Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We South Carolinians are proud of our palmetto trees. So proud, in fact, that we call ourselves the \u201cPalmetto State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only are our palmettos beautiful, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandpacket.com\/news\/local\/news-columns-blogs\/article33650853.html\" target=\"_blank\">they also saved us during the Revolutionary War<\/a>. Fort Moultrie wasn\u2019t quite finished, you see, so palmetto logs were used to complete construction. The logs were so spongy that they absorbed the British cannonballs, allowing the fort to remain standing under heavy barrage from British warships.<\/p>\n<p>In South Carolina, you will see images of palmetto trees on <em>every<\/em>thing. And here in the neighborhood, one of our favorite ways to display our pride is with \u2026 mailbox stands.<\/p>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery77\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-3 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GreenMailboxPost.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GreenMailboxPost.jpg\" width=\"1573\" height=\"2277\" alt=\"Green Mailbox Post\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GreenMailboxPost.jpg 1573w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GreenMailboxPost-207x300.jpg 207w, 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srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FrillyBlackMailboxPost.jpg 1976w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FrillyBlackMailboxPost-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FrillyBlackMailboxPost-768x1206.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FrillyBlackMailboxPost-652x1024.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1976px) 100vw, 1976px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GarnetMailboxPost.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GarnetMailboxPost.jpg\" width=\"1704\" height=\"3040\" alt=\"Mailbox Post\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GarnetMailboxPost.jpg 1704w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GarnetMailboxPost-168x300.jpg 168w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GarnetMailboxPost-768x1370.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GarnetMailboxPost-574x1024.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/OvalMailboxPost.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/OvalMailboxPost.jpg\" width=\"1689\" height=\"2365\" alt=\"Oval Mailbox Post\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/OvalMailboxPost.jpg 1689w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/OvalMailboxPost-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/OvalMailboxPost-768x1075.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/OvalMailboxPost-731x1024.jpg 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1689px) 100vw, 1689px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>To my knowledge, a British warship has never fired on our mailboxes. But if that ever happened, I bet our mailboxes would still stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We South Carolinians are proud of our palmetto trees. So proud, in fact, that we call ourselves the \u201cPalmetto State.\u201d Not only are our palmettos beautiful, but they also saved us during the Revolutionary War. Fort Moultrie wasn\u2019t quite finished, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/31\/palmetto-pride\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[39,12,55,26],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-mailboxes","tag-neighborhood","tag-palmettos","tag-walkabout-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}