{"id":8998,"date":"2014-02-20T04:44:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2014-02-20T04:44:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:44:07","slug":"prominent-holyoke-men-enjoying-chess-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/20\/prominent-holyoke-men-enjoying-chess-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Holyoke Men Enjoying Chess Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>17 February 1929<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8996\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2014\/02\/20\/prominent-holyoke-men-enjoying-chess-game\/17-feb-1929-chess-game-at-bay-state-club-wm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8996\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8996\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8996 \" alt=\"Prominent Holyoke Men Enjoying a Chess Game at the Old Bay State Club\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/17-Feb-1929-Chess-game-at-Bay-state-club-wm-300x196.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/17-Feb-1929-Chess-game-at-Bay-state-club-wm-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/17-Feb-1929-Chess-game-at-Bay-state-club-wm.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prominent Holyoke Men Enjoying a Chess Game at the Old Bay State Club<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>At Old Bay State Club 35 years ago (About 1894)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Holyoke, February 16 &#8212;<\/strong> This rare photograph was taken in the old Bay State Club rooms probably 35 years ago. All shown are dead. One the right is <strong>Charles A. Judd<\/strong>, who was in the tinning and plumbing business. Next to him is <strong>Edwin L. Squier<\/strong>, for years a freight agent of the Boston &amp; Main Railroad. Next is <strong>Architect E. A. Ellsworth<\/strong>. The man on the extreme left is <strong>Judge W. B. C. Pearsons<\/strong>, Holyoke&#8217;s first mayor. The photo seems to show a cigarette in the mouth of Judge Pearsons, who probably never smoked a cigarette in his life.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <em>The Springfield Republican.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 February 1929 At Old Bay State Club 35 years ago (About 1894) Holyoke, February 16 &#8212; This rare photograph was taken in the old Bay State Club rooms probably 35 years ago. All shown are dead. One the right is Charles A. Judd, who was in the tinning and plumbing business. Next to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,701,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998"}],"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=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9452,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/9452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}