{"id":1793,"date":"2009-12-27T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2.jpg"},"modified":"2016-10-18T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:57:37","slug":"downtown06232009-01-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/downtown06232009-01-2","title":{"rendered":"Wards Office Building"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-1793","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/d2w3ygkvuq5sxd.cloudfront.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/d2w3ygkvuq5sxd.cloudfront.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally built for Lahr Motor Sales, then later housing Montgomery Ward, this building, although appearing much different, still bares the &#8220;Wards&#8221; name.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery Ward was an original anchor at <a title=\"Kirkwood Mall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wiki\/kirkwood-mall-plaza-shopping-center\">Kirkwood Mall<\/a> when it opened in 1971, and closed in 1998. The former Wards space at Kirkwood now houses <a title=\"I Keating Furniture World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/directory\/i-keating-furniture-world\">I. Keating Furniture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following Montgomery Ward, <a title=\"Finney Drug Store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wiki\/finney-drug-store\">Finney Drug<\/a> was at one time housed in this building after relocating from the <a title=\"Grand Pacific Hotel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wiki\/grand-pacific-hotel\">Grand Pacific Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Bismarck is a registered historic district that held strong importance to the initial growth and success of the Bismarck area. Bismarck\u2019s downtown is roughly located between Washington Street &amp; 7th Street; and Rosser Avenue and Main Avenue.<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Wards Office Building \/ Former Montgomery Wards Store<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":640,"height":480,"file":"2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"downtown06232009-01-2-550x413.jpg","width":550,"height":413,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/d2w3ygkvuq5sxd.cloudfront.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2-550x413.jpg"},"post-thumb":{"file":"downtown06232009-01-2-550x413.jpg","width":550,"height":413,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/d2w3ygkvuq5sxd.cloudfront.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2-550x413.jpg"},"small-thumb":{"file":"downtown06232009-01-2-200x112.jpg","width":200,"height":112,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/d2w3ygkvuq5sxd.cloudfront.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2-200x112.jpg"},"full":{"file":"downtown06232009-01-2.jpg","width":640,"height":480,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/d2w3ygkvuq5sxd.cloudfront.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4","credit":"","camera":"KODAK C875 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1144386522","copyright":"","focal_length":"7.8","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.002","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/d2w3ygkvuq5sxd.cloudfront.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/downtown06232009-01-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}]}}