{"id":505,"date":"2023-08-16T19:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:00","slug":"kids-fought-to-find-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/kids-fought-to-find-fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids fought to find fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"505\" class=\"elementor elementor-505\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46391897 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"46391897\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-523022ad elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"523022ad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Originally published on Aug. 17, 2017.<\/em><\/p><p>\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p><p>Some time back, as I drove past that old Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union water fountain on the corner of Yosemite and D Street, a memory from our past came to mind. It included a couple of kids from Sierra Vista School, both of whom must be around 30 years old by now. One was Zach Pruitt, and the other was Antonio Ramirez.<\/p><p>Thanks to their curiosity and persistence, and some help from some local politicians, Madera\u2019s landmark water fountain was found and finally brought home.<\/p><p>The WCTU monument, which looms large in the memories of many long-time Maderans, was reinstalled on its original site at the corner of Yosemite Avenue and D Street after being missing for quite a spell.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on Aug. 17, 2017. \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Some time back, as I drove past that old Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union water fountain on the corner of Yosemite and D Street, a memory from our past came to mind. It included a couple of kids from Sierra Vista School, both of whom must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29,32,46,50,54],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-community","tag-culture","tag-organizations","tag-schools","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}