{"id":2012,"date":"2014-10-13T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T17:23:21","slug":"monday-13-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/13\/monday-13-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 13 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:21 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> The first thing many first-time visitors to downtown Winston-Salem notice is usually the old RJ Reynolds Building, which most of them probably assume is a small copy of the Empire State Building. In fact, the converse is true. The Empire State Building is a large copy of the RJ Reynolds Building, which was just added to the National Register of Historic Places.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The confusion is understandable, because the two buildings look identical except for size. In fact, many Winston-Salem residents call our building the Empire State Building. I wonder how many New Yorkers call their building the RJ Reynolds Building.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Barbara is due back late afternoon today. I still have lots of clean-up to do, so I&#8217;d better get started.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">13:23 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Late afternoon indeed. Barbara called a little while ago from Statesville, about 30 miles down the road, to say they had just finished lunch and were on their way home. Colin and I are frantically cleaning and decluttering. I just finished cleaning the toilets, and Colin is in the hall bathroom licking the floor because I didn&#8217;t have time to mop it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:21 &#8211; The first thing many first-time visitors to downtown Winston-Salem notice is usually the old RJ Reynolds Building, which most of them probably assume is a small copy of the Empire State Building. In fact, the converse is true. The Empire State Building is a large copy of the RJ Reynolds Building, which was just added to the National Register of Historic Places.\n<\/p>\n<p>The confusion is understandable, because the two buildings look identical except for size.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/13\/monday-13-october-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Monday, 13 October 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}