# Petticoat Junction: The Story, Characters, and Behind-the-Scenes Details That Made It Memorable<\/p>\n
For millions of television viewers during the 1960s, *Petticoat Junction* offered a cheerful escape into a fictional rural community where family, friendship, and small-town adventures provided the foundation for each episode.<\/p>\n
Set in the fictional community of Hooterville, the series centered on the Shady Rest Hotel, a modest country inn operated by Kate Bradley and her three daughters. The hotel was located near a railroad line, and the nearby train became one of the show\u2019s most recognizable features. Continue Reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" # Petticoat Junction: The Story, Characters, and Behind-the-Scenes Details That Made It Memorable For millions of television viewers during the 1960s, *Petticoat Junction* offered a cheerful escape into a fictional rural community where family, friendship, and small-town adventures provided the foundation for each episode. Set in the fictional community of Hooterville, the series centered on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40497,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions\/40497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}