{"id":12087,"date":"2012-08-23T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12087"},"modified":"2012-08-23T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:07:26","slug":"podunk-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/23\/podunk-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Podunk Is An Actual Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mr. Boffo web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrboffo.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mr. Boffo Cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrboffo.com\/images\/daily\/1987\/011487.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Boffo Cartoon\" width=\"95%\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I sent an email to Joe Martin, the <em>Mr. Boffo<\/em> cartoon&#8217;s author.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI am sure you will get many emails from all the various towns around the country called Podunk.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Podunk+Cemetery,+Brookfield,+MA&#038;hl=en&#038;ll=42.176762,-72.03289&#038;spn=0.026492,0.033302&#038;sll=42.176752,-72.032928&#038;sspn=1.69545,2.131348&#038;hq=Podunk+Cemetery,&#038;hnear=Brookfield,+Worcester,+Massachusetts&#038;t=m&#038;z=15\" title=\"Link to map of Podunk Cemetery\" target=\"_blank\">link to Podunk Cemetery<\/a><\/strong>, on Podunk Rd, just off the Podunk Pike.  This is in Brookfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbrookfieldma.us\/About-Our-Town.htm\" title=\"East Brookfield web site\" target=\"_blank\">East Brookfield web site<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1673 a significant portion of the plantation became the town of Brookfield, which then included the villages of West Brookfield, North Brookfield, East Brookfield and Podunk. &#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent an email to Joe Martin, the Mr. Boffo cartoon&#8217;s author. I am sure you will get many emails from all the various towns around the country called Podunk. Here is a link to Podunk Cemetery, on Podunk Rd, just off the Podunk Pike. This is in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Here is a link to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12087"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12097,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions\/12097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}