{"id":748,"date":"2013-09-14T18:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T23:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/sightseer\/?p=748"},"modified":"2013-10-23T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:28:11","slug":"patee-house-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Patee House Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponyexpressjessejames.com\/patee\/index.php\">Patee House Museum<\/a> (St. Joseph, Missouri)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Patee House served as the headquarters of the Pony Express from 1860-1861, but the\u00a0<i>really\u00a0<\/i>interesting stuff in this museum is related to the horrid crimes committed by the people of the area. Like a hammer and an electric drill used by a preacher&#8217;s son to beat a janitor to death, then drill holes in his body. The hair and blood is still visible on it. Or an axe that a housewife used to kill her husband, and a lynching rope that was used to hang a black man accused of raping a white girl. Or old horse-drawn hearses and an exhibit on Robert Ladlow, the world&#8217;s tallest man. In other words, there&#8217;s a cornucopia of morbid minutiae on display here. You can read all the best details at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/sights\/sightstory.php?tip_AttrId=%3D16080\">Roadside America<\/a>. (Thanks to<strong>\u00a0Bruce T.\u00a0<\/strong>for the suggestion.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patee House Museum (St. Joseph, Missouri) The Patee House served as the headquarters of the Pony Express from 1860-1861, but the\u00a0really\u00a0interesting stuff in this museum is related to the horrid crimes committed by the people of the area. Like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=748\">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":[34],"tags":[89,91],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","tag-murder","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}