{"id":2146,"date":"2012-08-14T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2012-08-14T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:41:47","slug":"preston-station-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/preston-station-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston Station sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/roadtrips\/LHproject\/images\/preston2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"313\" \/>\u00a0<em>November 29, 2002<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was taking pictures of the George Preston Station in Belle Plaine in late 2002, George&#8217;s son Ron happened to be there. I hadn&#8217;t expected that, but I explained that I was taking pictures of the station for a <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/roadtrips\/LHproject\/index.htm\">photo project about the Lincoln Highway<\/a>. We talked for a while. He let me inside and showed me some of the accumulated memorabilia. Finally, he graciously allowed to let me take a couple pictures of him in front of his dad&#8217;s famous landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Ron died last year.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/2012\/08\/08\/preston-memorabilia-up-for-auction-at-belle-plaine-station\/\">Last week, that memorabilia was sold off.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/roadtrips.html\">Other roadtrip gallery links are here<\/a> (and sorely need to be added to).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0November 29, 2002 When I was taking pictures of the George Preston Station in Belle Plaine in late 2002, George&#8217;s son Ron happened to be there. I hadn&#8217;t expected that, but I explained that I was taking pictures of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/preston-station-sale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}