{"id":505,"date":"2015-09-05T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2015-09-05T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T15:38:53","slug":"alvord-texas-has-a-water-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Alvord, Texas has a Water Sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150829AlvordTX-800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150829AlvordTX-800-180x320.jpg\" alt=\"The Alvord Water Sphere\" width=\"180\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150829AlvordTX-800-180x320.jpg 180w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150829AlvordTX-800-84x150.jpg 84w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150829AlvordTX-800.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>About midway between Fort Worth and Wichita Falls, Texas, the town of Alvord has a nice water sphere. It sits on top a hill on a bend in highway 287. The tower is a true water sphere. It is well kept, painted white, with the name Alvord on the sphere, and the high school team Bulldogs on the shaft.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo, the water tower eclipses the hot mid-afternoon sun. The tower stands like a sentinel, guarding the town, and announcing all those who dwell beyond this point. The clouds float like a flaming crown above. The chain link fence and wires cage the beast within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About midway between Fort Worth and Wichita Falls, Texas, the town of Alvord has a nice water sphere. It sits on top a hill on a bend in highway 287. The tower is a true water sphere. It is well kept, painted white, with the name Alvord on the sphere, and the high school team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}