{"id":3084,"date":"2009-05-02T07:07:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2009-05-02T07:08:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:08:36","slug":"accidental-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/02\/accidental-history\/","title":{"rendered":"accidental history&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"292\" border=\"0\" width=\"269\" vspace=\"7\" src=\"http:\/\/pickenscountyga.gov\/history\/population.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">A few years back, I was helping do a web site for the rural county where I live. I was making this graph to show how the coming of the railroad in 1896 and the later construction of an interstate had a major effect on the population of the county. I noticed the obvious &quot;dip&quot; in 1920. When I asked, local historians knew why immediately &#8211; the 1918 Influenza Epidemic hit hard here. There are no precise figures that I could find for the death toll, but looking at that graph, it looks close to 10%. Influenza epidemics are scary things&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I was helping do a web site for the rural county where I live. I was making this graph to show how the coming of the railroad in 1896 and the later construction of an interstate had a major effect on the population of the county. I noticed the obvious &quot;dip&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}