{"id":7226,"date":"2018-06-10T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/06\/10\/minnehaha-chimney\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T15:15:06","slug":"minnehaha-chimney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/06\/10\/minnehaha-chimney\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnehaha Chimney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180610romain_minnehahachimney.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7224 size-full\" height=\"4928\" width=\"3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180610romain_minnehahachimney.jpg 1192w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180610romain_minnehahachimney-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180610romain_minnehahachimney-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180610romain_minnehahachimney-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Location:\u00a0About 53rd and Minnehaha Avenue<\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder what that tall chimney is for that is along Minnehaha Avenue at about <u>53rd Street<\/u>? Turns out is is an incinerator and was built in 1939 by the WPA to burn refuse from the southside parks.\u00a0The WPA quarried the limestone from within the park to build this structure.\u00a0 It was used until the late 1960s when all household trash burning ceased in the city and the garbage haulers started to pick up all garbage <em>and <\/em>trash.\u00a0 I remember the air getting MUCH cleaner in the city when all the trash burning ceased!<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Sue Romain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background on the Minnehaha chimney around 53rd St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[206,530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}