{"id":267,"date":"2009-04-25T22:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T03:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2009-04-25T22:43:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T03:43:20","slug":"one-of-countys-earliest-settlers-spends-winter-in-cave-on-wessyngton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/one-of-countys-earliest-settlers-spends-winter-in-cave-on-wessyngton\/","title":{"rendered":"One of County&#8217;s Earliest Settlers Spends Winter in Cave on Wessyngton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_262\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-262\" title=\"Winters Cave on Wessyngton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/winters-cave-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Winters Cave on Wessyngton\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/winters-cave-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/winters-cave.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winters Cave on Wessyngton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of Robertson County Tennessee&#8217;s earliest settlers, Caleb Winters spent his first winter in a cave located on Wessyngton. Caleb was said to be an excellent hunter and lived on wild game. A creek running near the cave was called Caleb&#8217;s Creek in his honor. Winters later built a cabin across the creek from the entrance to the cave. The property was sold to Joseph Washington and remained in the Washington family until 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Robertson County Tennessee&#8217;s earliest settlers, Caleb Winters spent his first winter in a cave located on Wessyngton. Caleb was said to be an excellent hunter and lived on wild game. A creek running near the cave was called Caleb&#8217;s Creek in his honor. Winters later built a cabin across the creek from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,21,22],"tags":[98,100,97,96,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}