{"id":2572,"date":"2020-11-16T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2020-11-16T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:57:40","slug":"history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2020\/11\/16\/history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"I See What You Did There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This nice-looking Traveler showed up on Craigslist and FB Marketplace for around $17K, which is a pretty good price for what they&#8217;re offering. What caught my eye, beyond the obvious good looks and desirable extra 18&#8243; of wheelbase (and thus cargo space) was the location of the first staging shot:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2573\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Traveler-sale.jpg?resize=1024%2C768\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Traveler-sale.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Traveler-sale.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Traveler-sale.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Traveler-sale.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the former location of East Coast Scouts, my local IH mechanic in the early days when I had Chewbacca. He closed up shop in the early 2000&#8217;s when it got to be too much to stay on top of; he&#8217;s back in the area after moving to PA for a while and I traded emails with him last year.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"East Coast Scouts, 2002\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/8809676589\/in\/album-72157612462974114\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/2879\/8809676589_5fbf9f8297_c.jpg?resize=800%2C529&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"East Coast Scouts, 2002\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This nice-looking Traveler showed up on Craigslist and FB Marketplace for around $17K, which is a pretty good price for what they&#8217;re offering. What caught my eye, beyond the obvious good looks and desirable extra 18&#8243; of wheelbase (and thus cargo space) was the location of the first staging shot: That&#8217;s the former location of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chewbacca","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-Fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}