{"id":1806,"date":"2017-07-05T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2017-07-05T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:55:07","slug":"new-exhibit-the-colossal-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2017\/07\/05\/new-exhibit-the-colossal-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibit: The Colossal Elephant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a new exhibit up in the Local History Room&#8217;s lobby display case featuring well-known Kingston resident and capitalist, Horatio Adams, and an exciting prospectus he received for the construction of &#8220;The Colossal Elephant&#8221; at the Chicago World&#8217;s Fair in 1893.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/doc-11-0001-mc23.jpg\" alt=\"doc-11-0001-mc23\" width=\"750\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/doc-11-0001-mc23.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/doc-11-0001-mc23-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This investment opportunity was featured back in 2011 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/12\/it-will-roll-its-great-eyeballs\/\">blog<\/a>, but something so unusual and interesting deserves to be shared again. Stop by to check it out for yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a new exhibit up in the Local History Room&#8217;s lobby display case featuring well-known Kingston resident and capitalist, Horatio Adams, and an exciting prospectus he received for the construction of &#8220;The Colossal Elephant&#8221; at the Chicago World&#8217;s Fair in 1893. This investment opportunity was featured back in 2011 on the blog, but something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2017\/07\/05\/new-exhibit-the-colossal-elephant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Exhibit: The Colossal Elephant!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}