{"id":1674,"date":"1956-08-21T17:09:00","date_gmt":"1956-08-21T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2013-06-11T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:25:34","slug":"carver-center-steps-toward-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1956\/08\/21\/carver-center-steps-toward-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Carver Center Steps Toward Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8220;emergency loan&#8221; from the Community Chest and Council in 1956 provided the Carver Center with enough space to build the combined 1200 seat gymnasium-auditorium where Pryor emceed a set of talent shows.<\/p>\n<p>The Center&#8217;s expansion was justified by the &#8220;extremely high&#8221; population density in the area around it, where blacks in Peoria were concentrated, and by the lack of nearby recreational facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8220;emergency loan&#8221; from the Community Chest and Council in 1956 provided the Carver Center with enough space to build the combined 1200 seat gymnasium-auditorium where Pryor emceed a set of talent shows. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,206,196,364,377,8,50,24,25,1],"tags":[421,47],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1953-1962","category-childrens-theater-in-the-era","category-mecca-for-the-black-community","category-onstage-at-the-carver-center","category-4-carver-center-booms-in-the-era-of-reform","category-carver-center","category-juliette-whittaker","category-segregation-desegregation","category-making-of-a-comic","category-uncategorized","tag-carver-center","tag-theater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}