{"id":2751,"date":"2009-10-29T03:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T08:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2009-10-29T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:46:05","slug":"day-298-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memphis\/day-298-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 298: Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/4054442635\/\" title=\"Day 298: Estate by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2699\/4054442635_db26302a5e_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"Day 298: Estate\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amanda roused me out of hermit-dom Sunday, for which I am eternally grateful, for I got to nose up in the historic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/InTheBluff\/archives\/2009\/10\/23\/the-secret-mansion-in-annesdale-snowden\">Annesdale-Snowden estate<\/a>, which hasn&#8217;t exactly been open to the public very much in its prolific history. And what a history it has. The place is enormous, and features all the weird old leftover idiosyncrasies of Southern aristocracy we&#8217;ve grown to love and appreciate (dingy servants&#8217; quarters, anyone?). It felt more than tacky rifling through a dead man&#8217;s things \u2014 down to his wheelchair and bathroom box of bandages to wrap around his cracking, diabetic skin \u2014 but everything, <i> everything <\/i> was for sale. I gawked it up for $5 like everyone else. Part of me expected to find something amazing and cheap to take home with me, but let&#8217;s face it: The stuff in that house outclasses my kind by thousands. $10,000 bookcases and the like. So I took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/4055202668\/\">a piece of history for posterity<\/a> and will call it even. <\/p>\n<p>I hope that house doesn&#8217;t just sit there and rot like so much else in this town. It&#8217;s got stories to tell. Let&#8217;s all listen. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/sets\/72157611984534859\/\">Project 365<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda roused me out of hermit-dom Sunday, for which I am eternally grateful, for I got to nose up in the historic Annesdale-Snowden estate, which hasn&#8217;t exactly been open to the public very much in its prolific history. And what a history it has. The place is enormous, and features all the weird old leftover idiosyncrasies of Southern aristocracy we&#8217;ve grown to love and appreciate (dingy servants&#8217; quarters, anyone?). It felt more than tacky rifling&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,10,156,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-memphis","category-midtown","category-project-365-2009"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-In","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}