{"id":1115,"date":"2020-09-18T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2020-09-18T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:08:06","slug":"stealin-watermelons-swimmin-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/stealin-watermelons-swimmin-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealin&#8217; Watermelons &#8211; Swimmin&#8217; Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>STEALIN WATERMELONS<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>Watermelon Patches&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; reminds me of the time about 6 of us decided to steal some watermelons at a farmers patch out at Possum Trot&#8230;..We snuck up and all were about to get a watermelon&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;about that time the farmer came out with a shotgun and fired &#8230;&#8230;..We all grabbed the first one we could and got away&#8230;..all of us had small ones except Phil Bradley and he had a big one&#8230;&#8230;..He bragged and said nobody was gonna get any of his watermelon&#8230;&#8230;guess what\u2026.. his was green as a gourd&#8230;..he didn&#8217;t get any of ours either.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>SWIMMIN HOLE<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>Swimmin&#8230;&#8230;..we used to hitch a ride from Greenfield to the middle fork of the Obion River toward Sharon to swim and dive off the bridge pillar&#8230;&#8230;Mr. Clarence Herron had a farm down in the Kimery neighborhood but lived in town&#8230;&#8230;Mr. Clarence was known for picking up riders and taking them on down to his farm&#8230;&#8230;.I had heard this told and one day he picked us up in his A Model truck&#8230;&#8230;.I got in the seat next to him and 2 friends got in the back&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;We were intending to get out at the Kimery<br \/>road but Mr. Clarence turned and didn&#8217;t stop&#8230;&#8230;.I reached over and turned the engine off and took the key and pitched it in the middle of the<br \/>road and we all went running&#8230;..<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEALIN WATERMELONS \u00a0Watermelon Patches&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; reminds me of the time about 6 of us decided to steal some watermelons at a farmers patch out at Possum Trot&#8230;..We snuck up and all were about to get a watermelon&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;about that time the farmer came out with a shotgun and fired &#8230;&#8230;..We all grabbed the first one we could <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/stealin-watermelons-swimmin-hole\/\" class=\"read-more inline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 18, 2020","modified":"Updated on September 18, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 18, 2020 7:08 am","modified":"Updated on September 18, 2020 7:08 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}