{"id":880,"date":"2006-09-08T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=880"},"modified":"2006-10-10T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T06:35:54","slug":"878-of-hell-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"[878] Of Hell, Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular belief, there are only 266 people in Hell. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hell%2C_Michigan\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, &#8220;So sch\u00c3\u00b6n und hell!&#8221; &#8211; roughly translated as, &#8220;So beautiful and bright!&#8221; Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.<\/p>\n<p>The second holds that after Michigan gained statehood, George Reeves was asked what he thought the town he helped settle should be called, and replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care, you can name it Hell for all I care.&#8221; The name became official on October 13, 1841.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t I came this close to Hell when I was in Michigan but I&#8217;m sure many conservatives are disappointed that there are only a little over 200 people in Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular belief, there are only 266 people in Hell. According to Wikipedia: The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, &#8220;So sch\u00c3\u00b6n und hell!&#8221; &#8211; roughly translated as, &#8220;So beautiful and bright!&#8221; Their comments were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}