{"id":11800,"date":"2017-07-24T20:01:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=11800"},"modified":"2017-09-01T20:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T20:06:21","slug":"factory-onethe-octane-lounge-july-24-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/factory-onethe-octane-lounge-july-24-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Factory One<\/br>The Octane Lounge July 24, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Octane_Lounge_ACCORD.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Octane_Lounge_FACTORY_ONE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11801\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Octane_Lounge_FACTORY_ONE-126x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Octane_Lounge_FACTORY_ONE-126x300.jpg 126w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Octane_Lounge_FACTORY_ONE.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>Overview<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media&#8217;s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they&#8217;re produced. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a> to get started.If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoctanelounge.com\">www.theoctanelounge.com<\/a> to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>General Motors has restored and revived a former manufacturing facility that&#8217;s one of the most significant sites in the history of the North American auto industry. The Durant-Dort Factory One in Flint, Mich., dates back to the 1880s, when it began life as a cotton textile plant for Flint Woolen Mills. In 1886, William Crapo &#8216;Billy&#8217; Durant and business partner Josiah Dallas Dort leased the space to run the Flint Road Cart Co. to build horse-drawn carriages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors has restored and revived a former manufacturing facility that&#8217;s one of the most significant sites in the history of the North American auto industry. The Durant-Dort Factory One in Flint, Mich., dates back to the 1880s, when it began life as a cotton textile plant for Flint Woolen Mills. In 1886, William Crapo &#8216;Billy&#8217; Durant and business partner Josiah Dallas Dort leased the space to run the Flint Road Cart Co. to build horse-drawn carriages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-store-items","category-the-octane-lounge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11802,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800\/revisions\/11802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}