{"id":4629,"date":"2015-12-13T08:16:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2015-12-13T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:21:38","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cottage.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cottage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cottage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.this was Thistle Hill Farm!<\/p>\n<p>Wooz&#8217; parents bought the farm at the end of World War II.\u00a0 This is 1947&#8230;.her father is sitting on the steps&#8230;.an aunt in dark clothing in the center&#8230;her mother in white on the left.\u00a0 (click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p>Wooz and her sister slept in the kitchen&#8230;her parents in the other room in the house&#8230;the living room\/bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Bells thought they had purchased about 100 acres with the cottage&#8230;a later survey indicated they owned 140 acres.\u00a0 The house was eventually enlarged by the addition of a two story log cabin to the left&#8230;and a glassed in year-round porch in front.\u00a0 Eventually son Church sheathed the entire structure.<\/p>\n<p>This is now referred to as &#8220;The Little House&#8221;.\u00a0 Wooz and her late husband, General Church Matthews,\u00a0built the main house in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an historic site&#8230;.beginning with the fact this was part of a huge land-holding\u00a0of the first Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall.\u00a0 Marshall himself was born and grew up in a log cabin which still stands not far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.this was Thistle Hill Farm! Wooz&#8217; parents bought the farm at the end of World War II.\u00a0 This is 1947&#8230;.her father is sitting on the steps&#8230;.an aunt in dark clothing in the center&#8230;her mother in white on the left.\u00a0 (click to enlarge) Wooz and her sister slept in the kitchen&#8230;her parents in the other room in the house&#8230;the living room\/bedroom. The Bells thought they had purchased about 100 acres with the cottage&#8230;a later survey indicated they owned 140 acres.\u00a0 The house was eventually enlarged by the addition of a two story log cabin to the left&#8230;and a glassed in year-round porch in front.\u00a0 Eventually son Church sheathed the entire structure. This is now referred to as &#8220;The Little House&#8221;.\u00a0 Wooz and her late husband, General Church Matthews,\u00a0built the main house in the 1960s. It&#8217;s an historic site&#8230;.beginning with the fact this was part of a huge land-holding\u00a0of the first Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall.\u00a0 Marshall himself was born and grew up in a log cabin which still stands not far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4633,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}