{"id":1615,"date":"1956-04-15T19:17:21","date_gmt":"1956-04-15T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2014-09-02T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T19:44:32","slug":"this-was-peoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1956\/04\/15\/this-was-peoria\/","title":{"rendered":"This Was Peoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the mid 1950s,\u00a0 Peorians were already noting the significant changes in the city &#8212; lauding the success of the reform movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article is part of a series run by the Peoria Journal Star in April of 1956:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Old Peoria: As Wide Open As The Gateway To Hell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1956\/04\/14\/old-peoria-as-wide-open-as-the-gateway-to-hell\/\">Old Peoria: As Wide Open As the Gateway To Hell <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Old Peoria: Fixed Cops, Gang Murders, Kidnapping\" href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1956\/04\/15\/old-peoria-fixed-cops-gang-murders-wholesale-kidnapping\/\">Old Peoria: Fixed Cops, Gang Murders, Wholesale Kidnapping<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"This Was Peoria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1956\/04\/15\/this-was-peoria\/\">This Was Peoria<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/1956_4_OldPeoria_JournalStarSeries1.pdf\">In Old Peoria It Was &#8216;Murder&#8230;&#8217;<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/1956_4_OldPeoria_JournalStarSeries1.pdf\">Old Peoria Was &#8216;Right&#8217; For Sheltons Until Death Closed the Books<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the mid 1950s,\u00a0 Peorians were already noting the significant changes in the city &#8212; lauding the success of the reform movement. &nbsp; This article is part of a series run by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,374,347,261,401,22,18,17],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1953-1962","category-2-overviews-of-the-woodruff-era","category-2-empire-of-vice","category-reform_7","category-portraits-of-the-city","category-reform-this-town","category-sin-city","category-themes","tag-urban-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6121,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/6121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}