{"id":573888975,"date":"2016-01-03T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T04:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888975"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:25:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:25:26","slug":"a-church-a-park-swings-and-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/a-church-a-park-swings-and-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"A church, a park, swings and ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful day in Savannah. Here&#8217;s your proof, this is the Independent Presbyterian Church, organized in 1755:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" height=800 width=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan17.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The original church was built on land granted by King George II. A new church went up in 1816. The English restoration style, features Federal windows, Corinthian columns, that picturesque steeple, and a beautiful  sanctuary with an elevated mahogany pulpit. It was destroyed by fire in 1889, but a duplicate was built on the same spot just two years later and the interior is faithful to that period, including the baptismal, which survived that fire and is still used today. President Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s first wife was born on the property. The great hymn writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lowell_Mason\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell Mason<\/a> worked there for a time. <\/p>\n<p>We found some swings:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" height=800 width=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan18.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I created some Boomerang videos:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.421875% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BAFsIYBRFps\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">A swing, the Boomerang app and Ren. @lmrsmith @laurnsmith<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-01-03T19:38:04+00:00\">Jan 3, 2016 at 11:38am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I like watching the kids in the background. It is hypnotic, really. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the trees in Forsyth Park:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" height=800 width=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan19.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And some of the ads that were hanging at the restaurant where we had dinner tonight. People today sometimes think flight-sweep was about tail fins. And while they do stand out, they only ran for another seven or so years on American roads after this ad. No, flight-sweep was really centered around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uaw-chrysler.com\/images\/news\/exner.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Virgil Exner<\/a>&#8216;s lower, sleeker designs, inspiring car designers you still see even today:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" height=800 width=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan20.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t this just make you want to fly to Hawaii?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" height=800 width=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan21.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful day in Savannah. Here&#8217;s your proof, this is the Independent Presbyterian Church, organized in 1755: The original church was built on land granted by King George II. A new church went up in 1816. 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