{"id":13350,"date":"2014-03-14T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2014-03-14T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T11:06:07","slug":"connect-the-dots-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/14\/connect-the-dots-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect the Dots, Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dustbury<\/a> links to this disturbing story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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There are plans to build the country’s largest single family residence in northeast Edmond.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Edmond Planning Commission was asked to give approval to a mega mansion on the northwest corner of Sorghum Mill Road and Westminster Road.<\/p>\n

“It’s truly a castle,” says Bob Schiermeyer, who saw the first renderings late last year and tells News 9 the plans call for a draw bridge and spires that reach 90 feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, it’s just a story until I mix my own brand of disturbed into it.<\/p>\n

Because this is not the first castle to be built in the region recently. See also:<\/a><\/p>\n

As the monolithic structure began to rise on an isolated mountaintop in Missouri’s Ozarks, the chatter grew: Who was building this cement castle?<\/p>\n

. . . .<\/p>\n

The massive structure will require several thousand yards of concrete to build. The building materials include a concrete additive that contains tiny pieces of wire that will allow the structure to withstand everything from an F-5 tornado to a bomb blast. Tornadoes are certainly a concern, as Pensmore is in rural Christian County, Mo., not too far from Joplin, the town that was ravaged by a powerful tornado on May 22. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I got two words for you: Marcher lords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the Internet, after all. What do we have to do around here but speculate wildly?<\/p>\n

Although I have to admit, if I had the dinero for it, I think I’d have a castle built, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dustbury links to this disturbing story: There are plans to build the country’s largest single family residence in northeast Edmond. Last year, the Edmond Planning Commission was asked to give approval to a mega mansion on the northwest corner of Sorghum Mill Road and Westminster Road. “It’s truly a castle,” says Bob Schiermeyer, who saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13351,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions\/13351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}