{"id":841,"date":"2009-01-13T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2009-01-13T22:23:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T02:23:42","slug":"ghost-signs-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Signs &#8211; Wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally discovered the concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livinggoldpress.com\/ghost.htm\" TARGET='_blank'>Ghost Signs<\/a> today while looking something else up on the Internet.  Ghost signs are faded signs on the side of barns and brick buildings.  You&#8217;ve probably seen them before but never given them much thought.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mail_Pouch_Tobacco_Barn\" TARGET='_blank'>Mail Pouch<\/a> anyone?<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/10285999@N00\/\" TARGET='_blank'>Flickr groups<\/a> and websites devoted to ghost signs in specific towns such as those in <a href=\"http:\/\/lawrenceotoole.com\/signs\/signs.html\" TARGET='_blank'>Philadelphia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/~ndonoh\/\" TARGET='_blank'>Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Without thought, I captured an Eveready Flashlights &#038; Batteries ghost sign while on Christmas holiday in WV.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/media\/caboose.jpg\" alt=\"Caboose and Ghost Sign\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Caboose with Ghost Sign &#8211; New Martinsville, WV &#8211; December 26th, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally discovered the concept of Ghost Signs today while looking something else up on the Internet. Ghost signs are faded signs on the side of barns and brick buildings. You&#8217;ve probably seen them before but never given them much thought. Mail Pouch anyone? There are Flickr groups and websites devoted to ghost signs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}