{"id":188,"date":"2010-05-09T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=188"},"modified":"2012-04-10T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T15:35:21","slug":"octagon-house-in-whitewater-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Octagon House in Whitewater, WI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 200px; width: 200px;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=307763f49437a360658268d6e1b88780&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Octagon House in Whitewater, WI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57319697@N00\/4590159452\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4590159452_8e51bdcc9d.jpg\" alt=\"Octagon House in Whitewater, WI\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Urbex doesn&#8217;t have to be about infiltrating abandoned buildings all the time. Sometimes you just have to walk around the neighborhoods that surround you and talk to people. I spoke with the sister of the home&#8217;s owner, who was packing her car. Erin did not know much of the history of the home, but she did tell me about the inside. The basement is a dirt foundation and not currently used for much. The ground level floor has a living room, kitchen, and small dining area. There is indeed a second floor to this home. A very tiny staircase leads to two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor. The home is currently occupied by a man, woman, and their young daughter.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octagon.bobanna.com\/WI.html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a> claims that the house was built in 1855. I will have to return to the library and confirm this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urbex doesn&#8217;t have to be about infiltrating abandoned buildings all the time. Sometimes you just have to walk around the neighborhoods that surround you and talk to people. I spoke with the sister of the home&#8217;s owner, who was packing her car. Erin did not know much of the history of the home, but she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[222,227,331,490,491,579],"geo":{"latitude":42.8343048,"longitude":-88.7176361,"description":"Whitewater, WI, USA"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}