{"id":597,"date":"2019-01-25T21:24:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/?page_id=597"},"modified":"2019-04-01T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:58:21","slug":"the-country-squire-motel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/knoxville-then-and-now\/the-country-squire-motel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Country Squire Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"knoxville-then-and-now\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"382\" data-attachment-id=\"447\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/?attachment_id=447\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vanishing-america.jpg?fit=1000%2C478\" data-orig-size=\"1000,478\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vanishing-america.jpg?resize=300%2C143 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vanishing-america.jpg?resize=768%2C367 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"> <br>Knoxville, Tennessee &#8211; Then and Now <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">The Country Squire Motel &#8211; 7304 Kingston Pike<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"492\" data-attachment-id=\"598\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/knoxville-then-and-now\/the-country-squire-motel\/country-squire\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/country-squire.jpg?fit=750%2C492\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/126-2696_IMG.jpg?resize=524%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/126-2696_IMG.jpg?w=524 524w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/126-2696_IMG.jpg?resize=300%2C181 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n\nToday, as best I can tell, this shopping center takes it&#8217;s place. This whole area is so changed I could not even find an address on the buildings.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knoxville, Tennessee &#8211; Then and Now The Country Squire Motel &#8211; 7304 Kingston Pike Today, as best I can tell,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598,"parent":507,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"no_sidebar_full_width","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"no_sidebar","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-597","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7KxB0-9D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions\/785"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}