{"id":22164,"date":"2012-05-30T23:21:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T03:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22164"},"modified":"2012-05-30T23:21:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T03:21:05","slug":"palm-city-resident-restoring-historic-bahamian-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/palm-city-resident-restoring-historic-bahamian-lighthouse","title":{"rendered":"Palm City Resident Restoring Historic Bahamian Lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22172\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22172\" title=\"elbow-reef-lighthouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/elbow-reef-lighthouse-250x187.jpg\" alt=\"Elbow Reef Lighthouse\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elbow Reef Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s Palm City [Florida] resident Annie Potts&#8217; dream that the historic Elbow  Reef Lighthouse in the Bahamas will remain a beacon of hope forever.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Potts, who also is the director of the Bahamas  Lighthouse Preservation Society, flew from Witham Field to Elbow Cay,  Abaco, to continue her restoration on the relic.<\/p>\n<p>She was greeted by three, 4-foot high, 2-foot wide, diamond-shaped  pieces of clear glass that will replace old paneling on the lighthouse&#8217;s  lantern room. The glass was shipped from the Port of Palm Beach on  Tuesday, Potts said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lighthouses are a very important part of Bahamian history and  culture,&#8221; Potts said. &#8220;It&#8217;s worth keeping it as active history. It needs  to be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many people go there to see it. It&#8217;s an icon around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elbow Reef Light Station, which is in the Hope Town district of  Abaco, was built in 1864 by the British and is the last of its kind in a  dying breed, Potts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floridia resident Annie Potts, director of the Bahamas Lighthouse Preservation Society, is working to ensure that the historic Elbow Reef Lighthouse in the Bahamas will remain a beacon of hope forever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[103,44,73],"class_list":["post-22164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-abaco","tag-history","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}