{"id":2441,"date":"2012-04-14T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T01:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2012-04-14T20:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T01:17:37","slug":"talking-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"Talking Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 7 miles]<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s run took us on Williams Road south of Starkville.<\/p>\n<p>On Williams Road there is a water tower which belongs to a rural water district. On the tower it says, &#8220;Talking Warrior Water Association&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I had been wondering what &#8216;talking warrior&#8217; meant.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Columbus Dispatch has a column by the local historian, Rufus Ward.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdispatch.com\/opinions\/article.asp?aid=15227\">One Sunday last January<\/a>\u00a0 he mentioned a local Choctaw indian of note\u00a0 named Talking Warrior.<\/p>\n<p>Talking Warrior signed his &#8216;X&#8217; on a <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/kappler\/vol2\/pgimages\/cho0137.jpg\">treaty with the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a Talking Warrior Creek\u00a0 in the neighborhood of the water association.<\/p>\n<p>So now I know a bit about Talking Warrior.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 7 miles] Today&#8217;s run took us on Williams Road south of Starkville. On Williams Road there is a water tower which belongs to a rural water district. On the tower it says, &#8220;Talking Warrior Water Association&#8221;. I had been wondering what &#8216;talking warrior&#8217; meant. The Sunday Columbus Dispatch has a column by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}