{"id":253,"date":"2009-05-22T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2009-05-22T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:10:37","slug":"the-six-gravestones-of-soapy-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"The Six Gravestones of Soapy Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soapy Smith was a scoundrel, con artist, bunco man, and lowlife of the highest order, so he naturally left quite a lot of bad blood behind when he was shot to death in 1898, and this has taken a harsh toll on the sanctity of his final resting place.  <a href=\"http:\/\/soapysmith.net\">Friends of Bad Man Soapy Smith<\/a> has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapysmith.net\/id22.html\">a history of Soapy&#8217;s six gravestones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>1898 &#8211; 1901.  Stolen.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soapysmith.net\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>1901 (+-)- 1927.  Washed out to sea in a flood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soapysmith.net\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/SoapyMarkerInGround_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>1927 &#8211; 1950s.  Became target practice for vandalism and gun practice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soapysmith.net\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/SoapyCementGraveMarker_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>Maybe same as above, but protected from target practice.  Blown up with dynamite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soapysmith.net\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/OneOfSoapysMarkers.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>1950s -1997.  Deterioriated naturally?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soapysmith.net\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/SoapyMarker.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>1997 &#8211; present<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soapysmith.net\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/SoapySmithGravesite.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soapy Smith was a scoundrel, con artist, bunco man, and lowlife of the highest order, so he naturally left quite a lot of bad blood behind when he was shot to death in 1898, and this has taken a harsh toll on the sanctity of his final resting place. Friends of Bad Man Soapy Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steamboing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}