{"id":18265,"date":"2010-09-23T20:44:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2010-09-23T20:44:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:44:58","slug":"back-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/back-84\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10sept\/backrbwth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>WLS Prairie Farmer Home Talent Show<!--more--><br \/>\nby Barry Bauer<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10sept\/backrbw.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nFor three nights in July, back in 1937, people from St. Johns and the surrounding communities were entertained by the &#8220;WLS Prairie Farmer Home&#8221; talent show thanks to the American Legion Auxiliary.<br \/>\nThe event took place in the Rodney B. Wilson Auditorium which would years later host &#8220;A St. Johns Prairie Home Companion&#8221; during the 2006 St. Johns Sesquicentennial celebration.<br \/>\nIdentified in the crowd of cast members were:<br \/>\nOn the lower left on the bales of hay are Frances Allen, show director, sitting next to Floyd Countryman, who is busy whittling on a piece of wood.<br \/>\nUp on the topside is Ed Nichols and down in the right hand corner is William H. Judd, watching the square dancers.<br \/>\nThis photo was taken from the balcony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WLS Prairie Farmer Home Talent Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lookback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}