{"id":305,"date":"2014-10-22T13:57:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=305"},"modified":"2014-10-22T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:57:05","slug":"landmark-county-jail-taken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Landmark County Jail Taken Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the area&#8217;s oldest landmarks was razed in June 1966. The Beltrami County jail, first placed into service in 1899, was replaced early in 1966 by a new modern jail structure. Six sheriffs served during its tenure. They were Jacob Nygaard (1897-1900), Tom Bailey (1900-1908), A. B. Hazen (1909-1912), Andrew Johnson (1913-1922), Julius Johnson (1923-1926) and John Cahill (1939 to 1966). The first prisoner housed in the jail was one Grant Shreve, committed for 90 days for petty larceny and described as having &#8220;a long hook nose, a sort of queer look and an oval shaped head.&#8221; (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, June 14, 1966)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the area&#8217;s oldest landmarks was razed in June 1966. The Beltrami County jail, first placed into service in 1899, was replaced early in [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=305\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsclips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}