{"id":933,"date":"2008-11-17T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/tug-takes-woman\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T18:18:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T18:18:48","slug":"tug-takes-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/tug-takes-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"tug takes woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of Estel Thomas, foreman of a Tug River Lumber Company mill, and her three-year-old child were sleeping in their home in the Dry Fork of Tug River when the stream flooded the house with three feet of water.  They were  still inside, when &#8220;a huge drift came by, striking the structure which forced it from its foundation and over the bank.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>It was reported that the woman cried piteously for help as the structure floated down by the town of Davy &#8220;and that hundreds of people stood lining the banks, helplessly watching as the house struck the railroad bridge and sank from view&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Real article from my hometown newspaper, circa 1902. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of Estel Thomas, foreman of a Tug River Lumber Company mill, and her three-year-old child were sleeping in their home in the Dry Fork of Tug River when the stream flooded the house with three feet of water. They were still inside, when &#8220;a huge drift came by, striking the structure which forced<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}