{"id":652,"date":"2014-12-23T22:29:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T04:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=652"},"modified":"2014-12-23T22:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T04:29:59","slug":"pump-house-explosion-1902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Pump House Explosion (1902)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday morning at 2 o&#8217;clock the\u00a0gasoline in the city waterworks pump\u00a0house exploded, sending the majority\u00a0of the engine and pump house beyond\u00a0reach of the naked eye, the balance\u00a0being demolished by fire. M. E. Carson, who was in charge of the pump\u00a0at the time, was severely burned. It\u00a0looked at one time as though the\u00a0water tower would be enveloped in\u00a0flames, and only for the prompt action taken by the fire department it<br \/>\nwould have been burned to the ground. (Jan 2, 1902)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday morning at 2 o&#8217;clock the\u00a0gasoline in the city waterworks pump\u00a0house exploded, sending the majority\u00a0of the engine and pump house beyond\u00a0reach of the naked eye, [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=652\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsclips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}