{"id":72470,"date":"2016-08-25T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72470"},"modified":"2016-08-24T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T00:02:49","slug":"stone-quarry-hill-art-park-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72470","title":{"rendered":"Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=60659\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-60659\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Stone-Quarry-Hill-Art-Park-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Stone Quarry Hill Art Park\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Stone-Quarry-Hill-Art-Park.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Stone-Quarry-Hill-Art-Park-150x146.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For seven generations, whisperings of its whereabouts have haunted and taunted man, woman, and babe alike. Evidence of its skulking&#8211; footprints (serpentine talons? giant paws?) have marked the forest floor. Accounts of sightings scribed in obscure texts made note of indubitable signs: branches broken by no storm or common critter, strange bellows heard in the nights.<\/p>\n<p>Deep below the soft ground of the old Piney Woods, buried beneath the foundation of Mary Hackley\u2019s old homestead, tucked between the remnants of lost sculptures, hidden near Dorothy\u2019s favorite raspberry bushes, a creature has been unearthed,\u00a0an unnameable <!--more-->curiosity\u00a0shrouded in many cloaks of mystery, uncovered after 115 years.<\/p>\n<p>There are believers among us, but, lo,\u00a0fair inquisitors of the spectacular:\u00a0will this discovery bring answers or more uncertainties?\u00a0\u00a0Is it friend or foe? Myth or unfathomable truth?<\/p>\n<p>BEHOLD:\u00a0The original Stone Quarry Hill Vraag!<br \/>\n10 feet long, 9 feet high, 250 pounds.<br \/>\nPulled from the grounds of Stone Quarry Hill Art Park.<br \/>\nCompletely preserved.<br \/>\n\u201cThe most valuable single exhibit in the world today.\u201d<br \/>\n<span data-term=\"goog_1561513221\">September 8-30, 2016<\/span>.<br \/>\nSee it before it\u2019s gone. 25 cents to view.<br \/>\nCapture its image before the curtain drops. 50 cents per photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Opening reception Thursday, Sept. 8<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;\">,<\/span>\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1561513223\">5:30 to 7:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For seven generations, whisperings of its whereabouts have haunted and taunted man, woman, and babe alike. Evidence of its skulking&#8211; footprints (serpentine talons? giant paws?) have marked the forest floor. Accounts of sightings scribed in obscure texts made note of indubitable signs: branches broken by no storm or common critter, strange bellows heard in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}