{"id":196,"date":"2016-12-10T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-12-10T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:22:53","slug":"the-old-newfoundland-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/the-old-newfoundland-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Newfoundland Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/post-office-history-newfoundland-nj.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[196]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-206 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/post-office-history-newfoundland-nj-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"post-office-history-newfoundland-nj\" width=\"665\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/post-office-history-newfoundland-nj-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/post-office-history-newfoundland-nj-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/post-office-history-newfoundland-nj-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April of 1964 a group of students from Paradise Knoll Elementary School tour the post office to observe the process of mail delivery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Located between Oak Ridge Road and Clinton Road on Route 23 South, The Newfoundland Post Office serviced local residents until it moved into its new location in Lakeland Plaza in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The postmaster at the old location was Jim Norman, who lived in Newfoundland for many years. Jim was also a member of the Community Fire Co. in Newfoundland and a founding member of the North Jersey Historical Society. After retirement Jim moved to Colorado to live with his son and passed away there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/032714-ai-ann793-jpg.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[196]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-197 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/032714-ai-ann793-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"newfoundland nj post office history\" width=\"780\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/032714-ai-ann793-jpg.jpg 780w, https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/032714-ai-ann793-jpg-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/032714-ai-ann793-jpg-768x592.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Community Fire Co. No. 1 of Newfoundland and Oak Ridge\u2019s first fire truck \u2013 a 1,000 G.P.M. 1917 American La France pumper from a Union City auction \u2013 is readied by Jim Norman and Peter Klapmuts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located between Oak Ridge Road and Clinton Road on Route 23 South, The Newfoundland Post Office serviced local residents until it moved into its new location in Lakeland Plaza in the 1970s. The postmaster at the old location was Jim Norman, who lived in Newfoundland for many years. Jim was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46,28,29,75],"tags":[119,117,4,5,116,118],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idylease-blog","category-idylease-history","category-newfoundland","category-nj-history","category-west-milford","tag-community-fire-company","tag-jim-norman","tag-newfoundland","tag-nj","tag-post-office-history","tag-postmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idylease.org\/idylease-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}