{"id":167,"date":"2009-09-07T07:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2013-06-20T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:14:39","slug":"about-my-hometown-hyden-ky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Hyden Ky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyden is a city in Leslie County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 204 at<br \/>\nthe 2000 census. It is the county seat of Leslie County. It is located at the junction<br \/>\nof US 421 and Kentucky Route 80, along the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River.<\/p>\n<p>The area was first settled around 1817 by the John Sizemore family of North Carolina.<br \/>\nThe town was established in 1878 and incorporated in 1882, and was named after John<br \/>\nHyden, a state senator of the time who helped form Leslie County. The mountainous<br \/>\nterrain made the region difficult to access except by river, which was no longer the<br \/>\ndominant form of transportation by the late 19th century, hindering growth.<\/p>\n<p>Hyden briefly came to national attention when the Hurricane Creek mine disaster<br \/>\noccurred in late 1970, five miles from Hyden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyden is a city in Leslie County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 204 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,21],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-places","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolyndavidsonhicks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}