{"id":461,"date":"2009-09-25T19:36:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2009-09-25T19:36:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:36:22","slug":"doubletake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/09\/25\/doubletake\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubletake"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-460\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-460\" title=\"peo-03-0006-rchan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/peo-03-0006-rchan.jpg\" alt=\"A family of &quot;Pilgrims,&quot; no date\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/peo-03-0006-rchan.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/peo-03-0006-rchan-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family of &quot;Pilgrims,&quot; no date<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week&#8217;s study in incongruity comes from the Ruth Forbes Chandler papers.\u00a0 The finding aid for the collection gives the following biographical snippets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Author of a number of books and short stories for children.\u00a0 Teacher and principal in the New Bedford school system.\u00a0 Moved to Kingston in the 1950s. Lived at at 228 Main Street. Communicant of the Kingston First Parish Church, member and secretary of the Jones River Village Club, and a Friend of the Library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What it does not tell us is the identities of the these latter-day First Comers, where they were headed, and perhaps most interestingly, what kind of cars did Pilgrims drive?<\/p>\n<p>Update: It&#8217;s got to be a Plymouth, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s study in incongruity comes from the Ruth Forbes Chandler papers.\u00a0 The finding aid for the collection gives the following biographical snippets: Author of a number of books and short stories for children.\u00a0 Teacher and principal in the New Bedford school system.\u00a0 Moved to Kingston in the 1950s. Lived at at 228 Main Street. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/09\/25\/doubletake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doubletake&#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":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}