{"id":107,"date":"2012-06-01T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/sightseer\/?p=107"},"modified":"2013-10-23T20:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:42:24","slug":"chesapeake-ohio-canal-national-historic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Chesapeake &#038; Ohio Canal National Historic Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/choh\/index.htm\">Chesapeake &amp; Ohio Canal National Historic Park<\/a> (Washington, D.C.)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe C&amp;O Canal follows the route of the Potomac River for 184.5 miles from Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, MD. The canal operated from 1828-1924 as a transportation route, primarily hauling coal from western Maryland to the port of Georgetown in Washington, D.C. But the REAL reason that I selected this as a Morbid Sightseeing location is the tragic story of the Spong family, three of which were killed during a freak accident near Georgetown. The poignant story is recapped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/choh\/historyculture\/thespongchildren.htm\">here<\/a>. I must go here someday to find the &#8216;W-S-P-O-N-G&#8217; carving myself!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chesapeake &amp; Ohio Canal National Historic Park (Washington, D.C.) The C&amp;O Canal follows the route of the Potomac River for 184.5 miles from Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, MD. The canal operated from 1828-1924 as a transportation route, primarily hauling coal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-of-columbia","category-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}