{"id":3758,"date":"1944-01-01T23:48:49","date_gmt":"1944-01-01T23:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2014-05-21T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T22:05:07","slug":"bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1944\/01\/01\/bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Bryant, Richard&#8217;s grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Bryant, <a title=\"Marie Pryor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/archive\/people\/marie-pryor\/\">Marie Pryor<\/a>&#8216;s second husband, was known as &#8220;Pops&#8221; amongst Richard&#8217;s family. Though he had previous <a title=\"Police Notes: Thomas Bryant\u2019s Liquor Charge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1927\/02\/16\/police-notes-thomas-bryant-liquor-charge\/\">experience as a bootlegger<\/a>, he was often the member of the family running the semi-legitimate sides of the family businesses \u2014 Bris Collins&#8217;s tavern or his own pool hall.\u00a0For some years he was also Richard&#8217;s roommate, sharing a space in a brothel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Bryant, Marie Pryor&#8216;s second husband, was known as &#8220;Pops&#8221; amongst Richard&#8217;s family. Though he had previous experience as a bootlegger, he was often the member of the family running the semi-legitimate sides [&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":[387,390,21,60],"tags":[430,84],"class_list":["post-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pryor-family-album","category-from-bootleggers-to-bar-owners","category-family-affairs","category-people","tag-marie-pryor","tag-thomas-bryant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","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=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}