{"id":2292,"date":"2020-02-04T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:26:08","slug":"perry-to-be-remembered-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/04\/perry-to-be-remembered-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry to be remembered Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1136\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/perry.png?fit=600%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/perry.png 1136w, https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/perry-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/perry-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/perry-600x464.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A memorial service for former Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry will be held at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, February 5, at the Arts Collective, at 1200 Albany Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perry was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor of a major New England city, serving from 1987 to 1993. She died in the emergency room of Waterbury Hospital on Nov. 22, 2018, but the death remained unknown&#8211;even to friends and neighbors who knew her well&#8211;for nearly a year. Why that happened remains a mystery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/community\/hartford\/hc-news-carrie-saxon-perry-memorial-20200124-ltre26fiofbulpdfxazpbbewki-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"according to the Hartford Courant. (opens in a new tab)\">according to the Hartford Courant.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorial service for former Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry will be held at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, February 5, at the Arts Collective, at 1200 Albany Avenue. Perry was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor of a major New England city, serving from 1987 to 1993. She died in the emergency room of Waterbury &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/04\/perry-to-be-remembered-wednesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perry to be remembered Wednesday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,4],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-obituaries","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}