{"id":721,"date":"2011-01-21T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T21:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2011-01-21T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T21:16:06","slug":"new-exhibit-bills-bills-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2011\/01\/21\/new-exhibit-bills-bills-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibit: Bills, Bills, Bills!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January is not only cold and snowy, but usually swamped with bills from the previous month&#8217;s holiday extravagances. For example, in December of 1893, the Town of Kingston spent $2.50 at John C. Dawe&#8217;s establishment. \u00a0Eschewing groceries and grains, bypassing sails and spars, avoiding coffee and varnish, the Town settled on a single item: a new feather duster for the hearse house.<\/p>\n<p>Stop by the Library to see a selection of Kingston bills in the exhibit case.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-723\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/scan0011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-723\" title=\"DawesBill1893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/scan0011.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Feather Duster for Hearse House,&quot; 1893\" width=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/scan0011.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/scan0011-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Feather Duster for Hearse House,&quot; 1893<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January is not only cold and snowy, but usually swamped with bills from the previous month&#8217;s holiday extravagances. For example, in December of 1893, the Town of Kingston spent $2.50 at John C. Dawe&#8217;s establishment. \u00a0Eschewing groceries and grains, bypassing sails and spars, avoiding coffee and varnish, the Town settled on a single item: a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2011\/01\/21\/new-exhibit-bills-bills-bills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New exhibit: Bills, Bills, Bills!&#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":[4,7,18],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-exhibit","category-town-of-kingston","tag-billheads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}