{"id":668,"date":"2013-09-02T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/?p=668"},"modified":"2013-09-01T02:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T07:02:50","slug":"decker-chas-smallest-living-man-1866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/decker-chas-smallest-living-man-1866\/","title":{"rendered":"DECKER, Chas. &#8211; Smallest Living Man (1866)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chas. DECKER<\/strong> is believed to be the smallest man living. \u00a0He was born in Mississippi, and moved to Memphis when ten years of age, and has been engaged there for the past ten years selling periodicals. \u00a0He is now twenty years old, and thirty-six inches in height, and is well known in Memphis for his smartness and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>Pulaski citizen.<\/i>\u00a0(Pulaski, Tenn.), 02 Feb. 1866.\u00a0<i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/i>. Lib. of Congress. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033964\/1866-02-02\/ed-1\/seq-1\/\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033964\/1866-02-02\/ed-1\/seq-1\/<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chas. DECKER is believed to be the smallest man living. \u00a0He was born in Mississippi, and moved to Memphis when ten years of age, and has been engaged there for the past ten years selling periodicals. \u00a0He is now twenty years old, and thirty-six inches in height, and is well known in Memphis for his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/decker-chas-smallest-living-man-1866\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DECKER, Chas. &#8211; Smallest Living Man (1866)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsarticle","tag-decker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}