{"id":9889,"date":"2011-08-18T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2011-08-17T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:51:22","slug":"congratulations-to-old-trees-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/congratulations-to-old-trees-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Old Trees, Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town in which I lived prior to my moving to Southwest Missouri has been recognized in <em>Money<\/em> as one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bplive\/2011\/snapshots\/PL2978154.html?fb_ref=fbLike&#038;fb_source=home_oneline\" target=\"_blank\">best 100 places to live in the US<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNestled among tall oak trees planted 200 years ago, the neighborhoods in Webster Groves&#8211;named for 19th century statesman Daniel Webster&#8211;offer considerable economic diversity. Just two miles outside St. Louis city limits, the town has affordable housing that draws young families, plus much more expensive homes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny, that.  Actually, the story of the naming is a little more complicated.  In the 19th century, there was a school named for Daniel Webster that got a train stop.  The school closed, but the train stop remained, so when the townspeople wanted to incorporate to keep the demon liquor out, they applied for the name &#8220;Webster.&#8221;  However, since there was already a Webster, Missouri, they had to append &#8220;Groves&#8221; on it to get the official town name.  True story.  You just read it on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Was that college Webster University?  No, of course not: Webster University 1) isn&#8217;t closed and 2) was named for Noah Webster, who donated land to the Sisters of Loretto who ran the then-named Loretto College but who needed a new name since there was already a, you guessed it, Loretto College.  True story.  You just read it on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, wait a minute:  Why is Old Trees suddenly on this list <em>after I moved away?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town in which I lived prior to my moving to Southwest Missouri has been recognized in Money as one of the best 100 places to live in the US: Nestled among tall oak trees planted 200 years ago, the neighborhoods in Webster Groves&#8211;named for 19th century statesman Daniel Webster&#8211;offer considerable economic diversity. Just two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889","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=9889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9891,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions\/9891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}