{"id":23,"date":"2026-09-18T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_history=where-jesse-james-ended"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:07:23","slug":"where-jesse-james-ended","status":"publish","type":"sjc_history","link":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_history=where-jesse-james-ended","title":{"rendered":"Where Jesse James ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse James lived in St. Joseph under the name Tom Howard. On April 3, 1882 Robert Ford shot him in the house on Lafayette Street. The home was later moved next to Patee House and is open as a museum. The city\u2019s old slogan still tells the story in one line: where the Pony Express started and Jesse James ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse James lived in St. Joseph under the name Tom Howard. On April 3, 1882 Robert Ford shot him in the house on Lafayette&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-23","sjc_history","type-sjc_history","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_history\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_history"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sjc_history"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}