{"id":14695,"date":"2020-12-08T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T04:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=14695"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:39:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T01:39:01","slug":"2020-12-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=14695","title":{"rendered":"2020-12-08 GM Streetcar Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog in the link<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ochistorical.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/street-car-construction-reveals-street.html?m=1\">https:\/\/ochistorical.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/street-car-construction-reveals-street.html?m=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>said,<br \/>\n&#8220;The demise of the &#8220;Red Cars&#8221; was not a conspiracy, as some (including the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit) suggest. It was just a matter of the unavoidable market forces of supply and demand, combined with the march of time and technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is false according to the history and legal records. GM and other corporations were convicted and paid a small fine according to the book &#8220;Internal Combustion&#8221; by Edwin Black, and according to the link below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog in the link https:\/\/ochistorical.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/street-car-construction-reveals-street.html?m=1 said, &#8220;The demise of the &#8220;Red Cars&#8221; was not a conspiracy, as some (including the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit) suggest. It was just a matter of the unavoidable market forces of supply and demand, combined with the march of time and technology.&#8221; This is false according to the<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=14695\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,23,162,284,621,479,348],"tags":[713,714,716,715],"class_list":["post-14695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-books-documents-literature","category-government-agencies","category-history","category-internal-combustion-engine","category-law-enforcement","category-websites","tag-pacific-electric","tag-red-car","tag-street-car","tag-trolley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}