{"id":87100,"date":"2009-12-17T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"151 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2009-12-17T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T19:39:39","slug":"canos-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/87100","title":{"rendered":"Cano&#8217;s Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/colorado\/conejos-county\/antonito\">Antonito<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/colorado\">Colorado<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/outsider-architecture\">Outsider Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Built by Donald &#8220;Cano&#8221; Espinoza, a Native American Vietnam vet, whose main influences for the Castle are &#8220;Vitamin Mary Jane&#8221; and Jesus, it is a wonder to behold. Built largely out of beer cans and other metal refuse, for Espinoza it serves as a thanks for having his life spared during the war. Cano&#8217;s castle is actually four separate structures. &#8220;The king&#8221;, &#8220;the queen&#8221;, &#8220;the palace&#8221; and &#8220;the rook&#8221;. The four story &#8220;king&#8221; house, covered in beer cans and hubcaps gleaming in the sunlight, is by far the crowning architectural achievement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/COANTcano1_cattano.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"232\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonito, Colorado | Outsider Architecture Built by Donald &#8220;Cano&#8221; Espinoza, a Native American Vietnam vet, whose main influences for the Castle are &#8220;Vitamin Mary Jane&#8221; and Jesus, it is a wonder to behold. Built largely out of beer cans and other metal refuse, for Espinoza it serves as a thanks for having his life spared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}