{"id":19135,"date":"2013-04-20T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=19135"},"modified":"2013-04-20T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:50:01","slug":"chavis-carousel-dedicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2013\/04\/20\/chavis-carousel-dedicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavis Carousel Dedicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City leaders dedicated the refurbished carousel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raleighnc.gov\/arts\/content\/PRecRecreation\/Articles\/ChavisCommunityCenter.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Chavis Park<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The carousel first opened at Chavis Park in 1937 at a time when African Americans had limited access to Raleigh&#8217;s Pullen Park. Chavis Park attracted people from around the state.<\/p>\n<p>The now fully restored Allan Herschell Carousel and Wurlitzer 146A Band Organ stand in a new building with views of the city skyline. Saturday&#8217;s presenters included Helen Chavis Othow, a descendant of John Chavis and the author of a book on his life.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the $1.8 million project came mainly from a 2003 parks bond.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click an image to view full size.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City leaders dedicated the carousel at John Chavis Park Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24055,"featured_media":19137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[471,470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}