{"id":168,"date":"2005-09-30T07:43:19","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T12:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2005-09-29T22:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T03:48:18","slug":"worlds-oldest-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2005\/09\/30\/worlds-oldest-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Post Office in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lineages.co.uk\/\">Family Research<\/a>, a site dedicated to Scottish, Irish, and English genealogy, came across an interesting article by Iain Lundy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/\">Scotsman.com<\/a>, about the <a href=\"http:\/\/heritage.scotsman.com\/places.cfm?id=2002662005\">world&#8217;s oldest post office<\/a>.<br \/>\nExcerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sanquhar people are proud of their town&#8217;s history. The post office has been operating continuously since 1712, eight years longer than its closest rival, in the Swedish capital Stockholm. The third oldest, in Santiago, Chile, opened a full 60 years after the office in Sanquhar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s impressive.  A lot of history has passed through that post office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lineages.co.uk\/\">Family Research<\/a>, a site dedicated to Scottish, Irish, and English genealogy, came across an interesting article by Iain Lundy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/\">Scotsman.com<\/a>, about the <a href=\"http:\/\/heritage.scotsman.com\/places.cfm?id=2002662005\">world&#8217;s oldest post office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}