{"id":506,"date":"2023-05-13T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:05","slug":"kids-fought-to-find-madera-s-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/kids-fought-to-find-madera-s-fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids fought to find Madera\u2019s fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"506\" class=\"elementor elementor-506\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85e647d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"85e647d\" 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-541d7384 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"541d7384\" 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>A long time ago, as I drove past that old W.C.T.U. 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 past 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 lost landmark water fountain was found and finally brought home.<\/p><p>The Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union monument, which looms large in the memories of lots of 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>A long time ago, as I drove past that old W.C.T.U. 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 past 30 years old by now. One was Zach Pruitt, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26660,"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],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}