{"id":8231,"date":"2018-03-22T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2018-03-22T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T08:30:44","slug":"world-water-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 22 is World Water Day, a day to focus attention on the importance of water. In honor of the occasion, take a look at this selection of images of some of our local bodies of water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones River<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0205-ed-n-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silver Lake<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8241\" style=\"width: 606px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0170-ed-n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0170-ed-n.jpg\" alt=\"View of Silver Lake from the shore\" width=\"606\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silver Lake, 1924<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian Pond<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8242\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0153-ed-n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0153-ed-n.jpg\" alt=\"Boy in water and two people sitting in canoe on shore of Indian Pond\" width=\"605\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Pond, 1925<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russell&#8217;s Pond<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8243\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0051-ed-n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0051-ed-n.jpg\" alt=\"View of Russell's Pond from the South\" width=\"605\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell&#8217;s Pond from the south, 1923<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smelt Brook<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8244\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0162-ed-n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0162-ed-n.jpg\" alt=\"View of lower Smelt Brook\" width=\"605\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smelt Brook, c. 1925<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forge Pond<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8245\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0032-ed-n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-02-0032-ed-n.jpg\" alt=\"Porter Reed Tack Factory at Forge Pond\" width=\"605\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porter Reed Tack Factory at Forge Pond, 1925<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Kingston&#8217;s rivers, ponds, and brooks, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/local-history\/about-kingston\/places-around-town\/\">Places around Town<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about World Water Day and this year&#8217;s theme\u2014&#8221;Nature for Water&#8221;\u2014go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldwaterday.org\">worldwaterday.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Images from the Emily Fuller Drew Collection (MC16).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22 is World Water Day, a day to focus attention on the importance of water. In honor of the occasion, take a look at this selection of images of some of our local bodies of water. &nbsp; &nbsp; Jones River Silver Lake &nbsp; Indian Pond &nbsp; Russell&#8217;s Pond &nbsp; Smelt Brook &nbsp; Forge Pond &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Water Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,292],"tags":[143,195],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lhc","category-pique-of-the-week","tag-jones-river","tag-ponds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}