{"id":3033,"date":"2025-08-02T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daily-story.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T21:44:07","slug":"a-tree-that-owns-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/a-tree-that-owns-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"A tree that owns itself\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the story of Georgia, in the city of\nAthens, there exists a local landmark which is one of the <strong>most famous trees<\/strong> in\nthe world. So how does this tree own itself? And does the government agree with\nthe public\u2019s general sentiments?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand this, we need to go back in history. In the 19th century, a Georgian citizen named Colonel William Jackson, born in 1786, reportedly developed liking to said tree and pledged to protect it from any danger. If you are wondering why he loved this tree so much, you need to learn what is written on the front-page article in the Athens Weekly Banner that was published on 12th August 1890. The article says that Col. Jackson had watched this famous tree grow from his childhood. He grew to love it almost as if the tree was human. He watched tree\u2019s growth, and when he reached his old age, he was pained to think that the tree would fall in the hands of those who might destroy it after his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The ownership deed<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During his end, Col. Jackson made an ownership\ndeed of the tree and a little land around it. He made the said tree the owner\nof the property he acquired. Finally, on 9th October 1942, the tree, which was\napprox 300 years old and 30 meters tall, fell because of a severe windstorm, as\nper the rumors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After four years, the Junior Ladies Garden\nClub members took a small tree that grew from an acorn taken from the original\ntree. This new little tree that grew from the acorn of the original tree was\ntransplanted to its forebear\u2019s location, and this tree was known as The Son of\nthe <strong>Tree That Owns\nItself<\/strong>. People assumed that it naturally inherited the land it was\ntransplanted to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the story of Georgia, in the city of Athens, there exists a local landmark which is one of the most famous trees in the world. So how does this tree own itself? And does the government agree with the public\u2019s general sentiments? To understand this, we need to go back in history. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":3034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planet-and-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}