{"id":377,"date":"2011-05-11T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:34:22","slug":"the-hawk-hurst-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"The Hawk-Hurst, 1906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Hotels_Hawkhurst_coverlr1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-382\" title=\"Hotels_Hawkhurst_coverlr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Hotels_Hawkhurst_coverlr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Hotels_Hawkhurst_p1lr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-381\" title=\"Hotels_Hawkhurst_p1lr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Hotels_Hawkhurst_p1lr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This brochure, from the Hawk-Hurst hotel, continues to extol the virtues of Litchfield.\u00a0 The next page reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>It is true, as a well known newspaper writer has recently said, that \u201call the poor wretch\u201d has to do \u201cwho is languid with the luxuries of Lenox, stuffed with the satieties of Saratoga, nettled by the noodles of Newport, sick of the snobberies of Southampton, riled at the rigidities of Ridgefield, or piqued at the pretensions of Pittsfield,\u201d all that this poor wretch has to do is to \u201ccome and bask for a while in the lithsome light of Litchfield.\u201d He will leave a better and a happier man. But he will leave only to return the next season. It is an invariable rule that a person comes, sees, and is conquered. Once in Litchfield he is always a Litchfielder.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Special June rates for the season of nineteen hundred and six- $12.50 to $20 per week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brochure, from the Hawk-Hurst hotel, continues to extol the virtues of Litchfield.\u00a0 The next page reads as follows: It is true, as a well known newspaper writer has recently said, that \u201call the poor wretch\u201d has to do \u201cwho is languid with the luxuries of Lenox, stuffed with the satieties of Saratoga, nettled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}