{"id":116070,"date":"2017-09-05T02:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=116070"},"modified":"2017-09-05T02:47:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:47:58","slug":"trio-buys-boyhood-home-of-waltons-creator-to-keep-it-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/05\/trio-buys-boyhood-home-of-waltons-creator-to-keep-it-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio buys boyhood home of &#8216;Waltons&#8217; creator to keep it open"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_116071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116071\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The_Waltons_Title_Screen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116071\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The_Waltons_Title_Screen.png\" alt=\"The Waltons (Photo by Source, Fair us)\" width=\"322\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The_Waltons_Title_Screen.png 322w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The_Waltons_Title_Screen-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Waltons (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=25660694\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Source, Fair use<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SCHUYLER, Va. \u2014 Three longtime fans of the popular TV show \u201cThe Waltons\u201d have purchased the Virginia childhood home of the show&#8217;s creator in an effort to keep it open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Castro, one of the buyers, tells The News &amp; Advance he was worried someone would buy the Schuyler home of Earl Hamner Jr. and use it as a private residence.<\/p>\n<p>The home on the Virginia Landmarks Register was the basis for the show, which drew upon Hamner&#8217;s Depression-era upbringing.<\/p>\n<p>The new owners are instituting a few changes, including the hiring of a full-time docent who will conduct guided tours.<\/p>\n<p>Hamner died in March 2016 at 92. His show aired for nine seasons and won more than a dozen Emmys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCHUYLER, Va. \u2014 Three longtime fans of the popular TV show \u201cThe Waltons\u201d have purchased the Virginia childhood home of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":116071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[22914],"class_list":["post-116070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-the-waltons","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}