{"id":118,"date":"2009-09-28T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-09-28T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T22:10:17","slug":"river-tie-to-yosemite-natl-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/river-tie-to-yosemite-natl-park\/","title":{"rendered":"River tie to Yosemite Nat&#8217;l Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Historic Bunnell House Museum, Winona Historical Society\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winonahistory.org\/sites\/bunnell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">\u00a0Riverbuffs watching Ken Burn&#8217;s THE NATIONAL PARKS Sunday evening might be interested to know that the Upper River has a tie to Lafayette Bunnell, who named Yosemite Nat&#8217;l Park. From DISCOVER! AMERICA&#8217;s GREAT RIVER ROAD, Volume 1, p. 78 . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five miles south of Winona, in the tiny village of HOMER, MINNESOTA, is the historic &#8220;Bunnell \u00a0House.&#8221; This gothic gem was the home of Willard Bunnell, the first permanent settler and last Indian trader in the area. Bunnell&#8217;s brother, Lafayette, was among the men who discovered and gave the name Yosemite to the National Park in California.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Riverbuffs watching Ken Burn&#8217;s THE NATIONAL PARKS Sunday evening might be interested to know that the Upper River has a tie to Lafayette Bunnell, who named Yosemite Nat&#8217;l Park. From DISCOVER! AMERICA&#8217;s GREAT RIVER ROAD, Volume 1, p. 78 . &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/river-tie-to-yosemite-natl-park\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,28,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ramblin","category-travel","category-upper-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}