{"id":273,"date":"2009-02-09T19:51:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-02-09T19:51:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:51:39","slug":"new-exhibit-kingstonopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/02\/09\/new-exhibit-kingstonopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibit &#8211; KINGSTONOPOLY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Local History Exhibit for February starts with the game of Kingstonopoly, a customized version of the classic board game Monopoly done for the PTO of Kingston Elementary School in 2000.\u00a0 Looking through the collections of the Local History Room, we find not only a pair of adorable wooden boxes fashioned after houses out on Wapping Road (buy a house), but letterhead from the Kingston Inn (build a hotel), stock certificates (collect $200), promissory notes (borrow from the banker),\u00a0 and foreclosure documents (don&#8217;t go bankrupt).\u00a0 Life imitates the game and our historical collections represent a slice of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Stop in and take a look!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pkoilshares.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-274\" title=\"pkoilshares\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pkoilshares.jpg\" alt=\"Plymouth and Kingston Oil Company stock certificate, 1865\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pkoilshares.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pkoilshares-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plymouth and Kingston Oil Company stock certificate, 1865<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local History Exhibit for February starts with the game of Kingstonopoly, a customized version of the classic board game Monopoly done for the PTO of Kingston Elementary School in 2000.\u00a0 Looking through the collections of the Local History Room, we find not only a pair of adorable wooden boxes fashioned after houses out on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/02\/09\/new-exhibit-kingstonopoly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Exhibit &#8211; KINGSTONOPOLY!&#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":[4,7,15],"tags":[132,240],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-exhibit","category-people","tag-hotels","tag-stock-certificates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}