{"id":1228,"date":"2011-05-03T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2011-05-03T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:24:36","slug":"streetcars-of-grand-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Streetcars of Grand Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tY6tBMcmt1A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this short video, Grand Rapids native and amateur historian Fred Quillin discusses the world-class electric streetcar system that used to drive the city economy. In the mid-20th century the automobile industry purchased the streetcars and dismantled them. In the video Quillin makes an impassioned plea to Grand Rapids voters to reinvest in a streetcar system to revitalize the local economy. Well done, sir&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Boing Boing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/03\/when-grand-rapids-mi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this short video, Grand Rapids native and amateur historian Fred Quillin discusses the world-class electric streetcar system that used to drive the city economy. In the mid-20th century the automobile industry purchased the streetcars and dismantled them. In the video Quillin makes an impassioned plea to Grand Rapids voters to reinvest in a streetcar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[60,61,152,206,237,276,574,374,438,460],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}