{"id":832,"date":"2013-10-01T05:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=832"},"modified":"2013-10-01T05:32:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:32:48","slug":"morganza-spillway-morganza-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/other-related-topics\/morganza-spillway-morganza-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Morganza Spillway, Morganza, Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Morgan Migration \u2013 Morganza Spillway, Morganza, Louisiana<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_830\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Morganza-Spillway.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-830\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-830\" alt=\"Morganza Spillway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Morganza-Spillway.jpg\" width=\"931\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Morganza-Spillway.jpg 931w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Morganza-Spillway-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Morganza-Spillway-624x390.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morganza Spillway<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">The Morganza Spillway was thrust into the news by the May 2011 flooding of the mighty Mississippi River.\u00a0 Started in 1939, completed by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1954 and, until May 14, 2011, used only once \u2013 in 1973, the spillway was named for the community located just to the south of it.\u00a0 This community, Morganza, Louisiana, was named for Charles Morgan, the youngest son of Captain James Morgan and brother of Major General James Morgan, Jr., who established a very large plantation there in the early 1800s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wqp8R-xv8jE\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a video about the Morganza Spillway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Originally posted on May 14, 2011.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Migration \u2013 Morganza Spillway, Morganza, Louisiana The Morganza Spillway was thrust into the news by the May 2011 flooding of the mighty Mississippi River.\u00a0 Started in 1939, completed by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1954 and, until May 14, 2011, used only once \u2013 in 1973, the spillway was named for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":493,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-832","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/832\/revisions\/835"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}