{"id":11940,"date":"2016-01-17T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2016-01-17T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T18:12:35","slug":"happy-cable-car-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/01\/17\/happy-cable-car-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cable Car Day!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 17th is Cable Car Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmuseum.org\/bio\/hallidie.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11949\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cable-Car.gif\" alt=\"Cable Car\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>The cable car was invented because\u00a0a man named\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmuseum.org\/bio\/hallidie.html\">Andrew Smith Hallidie<\/a> noticed that horses were struggling to get up the steep streets of San Francisco.\u00a0In 1871, he received a patent for his system, and by late\u00a01873, the first cable car was installed and working on Clay Street (at Kearny).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Andrew_Smith_Hallidie_plaque,_Portsmouth_Square.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11947\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/800px-Andrew_Smith_Hallidie_plaque_Portsmouth_Square.jpg\" alt=\"Cable Car plaque\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/800px-Andrew_Smith_Hallidie_plaque_Portsmouth_Square.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/800px-Andrew_Smith_Hallidie_plaque_Portsmouth_Square-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m just telling you a small part of the whole cable car tale. It&#8217;s really quite a story! Read more about it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmuseum.org\/bio\/hallidie.html\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.milibrary.org\/events\/unveiling-andrew-smith-hallidie-jan-20-2016\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11950\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/young-hallidie.jpg\" alt=\"young-hallidie\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>A recently-refurbished\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.milibrary.org\/events\/unveiling-andrew-smith-hallidie-jan-20-2016\">portrait of Hallidie<\/a> hangs at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milibrary.org\/\">Mechanics Institute<\/a> in San Francisco. On January 20, the Institute&#8217;s librarian is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.milibrary.org\/events\/unveiling-andrew-smith-hallidie-jan-20-2016\">hosting a talk about his life<\/a> and an unveiling of the\u00a0restored portrait.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thepandorasociety.com\/august-2nd-1873\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11952\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clay-street-hill-wire-rope-rail-road.jpg\" alt=\"Clay street hill wire rope rail road\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clay-street-hill-wire-rope-rail-road.jpg 680w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clay-street-hill-wire-rope-rail-road-640x419.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 17th is Cable Car Day! The cable car was invented because\u00a0a man named\u00a0Andrew Smith Hallidie noticed that horses were struggling to get up the steep streets of San Francisco.\u00a0In 1871, he received a patent for his system, and by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,2,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11953,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions\/11953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}