{"id":71,"date":"2022-08-09T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/?p=71"},"modified":"2022-08-09T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:31:49","slug":"whalom-park-and-goffstown-mountain-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/whalom-park-and-goffstown-mountain-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Whalom Park and Goffstown Mountain House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We drove by the site of the old Whalom Park, and it got me in a nostalgic mood. Whalom was created in 1887 by the railroad as a “Trolly Park” and was a popular little resort, and a beloved amulsement park during my childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I the 1920’s – 1950’s it had a really hoppin’ ballroom with lots of jazz and swing bands, including Duke Ellington’s Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Goffstown Mountain House was a victorian hotel at the mountain summit, with an inclined railroad to the top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am planning to incorporate elements of both into our virtual world as a fun place to visit and learn about some of the history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We drove by the site of the old Whalom Park, and it got me in a nostalgic mood. Whalom was created in 1887 by the railroad as a “Trolly Park” and was a popular little resort, and a beloved amulsement park during my childhood. I the 1920’s – 1950’s it had a really hoppin’ ballroom … Continue reading Whalom Park and Goffstown Mountain House<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyacinth.rocks\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}