{"id":1772,"date":"2010-05-28T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2010-05-28T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:01:22","slug":"local-man-buys-splendid-new-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/28\/local-man-buys-splendid-new-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Man Buys Splendid New Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 27, 1917<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1773\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/truck.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1773\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1773\" title=\"Local Man Buys new Truck\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/truck-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Local Man Buys New Truck\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/truck-300x148.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/truck-1024x506.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/truck.jpg 1818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local Man Buys New Truck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two Ton Pierce-Arrow Truck for C. B. Sampson of Holyoke, from the Arrow company.   Cost at that time was around $3700.   Major money if you look at the range via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.measuringworth.com\/uscompare\/\" target=\"_blank\">relative value of a US dollar<\/a> over time. I guess it was pretty big news given the cost. The sign on the side of the truck reads &#8220;Hay, Grain and Mason Supplies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More on this truck (and with a clearer image) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pierce-arrow.org\/art\/art15\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pierce-Arrow site<\/a> (Scroll to bottom of page).<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 27, 1917 Two Ton Pierce-Arrow Truck for C. B. Sampson of Holyoke, from the Arrow company. Cost at that time was around $3700. Major money if you look at the range via the relative value of a US dollar over time. I guess it was pretty big news given the cost. The sign on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1],"tags":[415,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}