{"id":309,"date":"2010-05-10T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/?p=309"},"modified":"2010-05-10T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T23:20:26","slug":"pic-a-week-19-gillette-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2010\/05\/pic-a-week-19-gillette-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pic A Week #19 \u2013 Gillette Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GilletteCastle_1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308\" title=\"Gillette Castle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GilletteCastle_1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GilletteCastle_1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GilletteCastle_1000-500x335.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GilletteCastle_1000-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pic A Week #19 \u2013 Gillette Castle<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here we have the main living area of Gillette Castle [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.gov\/dep\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2716&amp;q=325204&amp;depNav_GID=1650\" target=\"_blank\">ct.gov<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gillette_castle\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia<\/a>] in East Haddam, CT.\u00a0 The detail of the wood in the ceilings, doors, even the light switches in this place is just incredible.\u00a0 Completed in 1919 the home has some unique properties (besides the clearly obvious of being a castle) such as William Gillette&#8217;s desk chair is on tracks with a built-in footrest so the chair and his feet would not scuff the floor and have you ever seen a home with it&#8217;s own fire hoses hanging on the wall?<\/p>\n<p>Gillette Castle opens for the season on Memorial Day &#8211; so pack a picnic lunch and bring the family to take a tour of the castle or hike the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.gov\/dep\/lib\/dep\/stateparks\/maps\/gillettecastlemap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">trails <\/a>around the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2010\/05\/pic-a-week-19-gillette-castle\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Pic A Week #19 \u2013 Gillette Castle Here we have the main living area of Gillette Castle [ct.gov | wikipedia] in East Haddam, CT.\u00a0 The detail of the wood in the ceilings, doors, even the light switches in this place is just incredible.\u00a0 Completed in 1919 the home has some unique properties (besides the clearly obvious of being a castle) such as William Gillette&#8217;s desk chair is on tracks with a built-in footrest so the chair and his feet would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,18,24],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-east-haddam","tag-pic-a-week","tag-lensda-18-250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}