{"id":32904,"date":"2025-02-09T15:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/the-landmark-home-of-a-california-family-was-destroyed-by-fire-now-a-city-reckons-with-its-painful-history\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:24:25","slug":"the-landmark-home-of-a-california-family-was-destroyed-by-fire-now-a-city-reckons-with-its-painful-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/the-landmark-home-of-a-california-family-was-destroyed-by-fire-now-a-city-reckons-with-its-painful-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The landmark home of a California family was destroyed by fire. Now a city reckons with its painful history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bidwell mansion was a symbol for the city of Chico, but for some it was a reminder of colonization and genocide<\/p>\n<p>In the early \u2013 morning darkness on 11 December, a police dispatcher at California State University, Chico, smelled the distinctive odor of smoke, a trigger in this fire-prone part of far northern California.<\/p>\n<p>She began combing through roughly 500 cameras on campus to find its source. Soon it became clear: the Bidwell mansion, a pink 26-room Victorian building dating to 1865 and one of the oldest buildings in the region, was on fire.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/09\/bidwell-mansion-chico-california-indigenous-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bidwell mansion was a symbol for the city of Chico, but for some it was a reminder of colonization and genocide In the early \u2013 morning darkness on 11 December, a police dispatcher at California State University, Chico, smelled the distinctive odor of smoke, a trigger in this fire-prone part of far northern California. &#8230; <a title=\"The landmark home of a California family was destroyed by fire. Now a city reckons with its painful history\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/the-landmark-home-of-a-california-family-was-destroyed-by-fire-now-a-city-reckons-with-its-painful-history\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The landmark home of a California family was destroyed by fire. Now a city reckons with its painful history\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}