{"id":55998,"date":"2016-10-15T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_a_shoe_salesman_lived_an_unassuming_life-_then_he_died_and_his_hom\/"},"modified":"2016-10-15T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:00:13","slug":"la_times_a_shoe_salesman_lived_an_unassuming_life-_then_he_died_and_his_hom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55998","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) A shoe salesman lived an unassuming life. Then he died, and his hometown got a surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Millen was born in 1930 and grew up here on North C Street, a neighborhood of treeless blocks along the Wishkah River, which occasionally swallows a chunk of a deteriorating house and carries it away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOl\u2019 Ken lived there all his life,\u201d\u009d said Lauri Penttila, nodding down the alley toward a blue-and-white 900-square-foot house, which recently was fitted with new windows, siding and a roof.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I knew him pretty well,\u201d\u009d Penttila said. \u201cUntil now.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Much of the city shares that feeling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-washington-shoe-salesman-snap-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Millen was born in 1930 and grew up here on North C Street, a neighborhood of treeless blocks along the Wishkah River, which occasionally swallows a chunk of a deteriorating house and carries it away. \u201cOl\u2019 Ken lived there<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55998\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,184,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}