{"id":1225,"date":"2013-05-27T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2013-05-31T13:54:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:54:42","slug":"firestone-legends-may-27-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/firestone-legends-may-27-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Firestone &#8211; Legends, May. 27, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Legends_Firestone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1226\" alt=\"Legends_Firestone\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Legends_Firestone-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Legends_Firestone-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Legends_Firestone.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/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=\"..\/..\/media\/?page_id=67\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>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.shiftweekly.com\/\">www.shiftweekly.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>It was 1895 and Henry Ford had just one thing to say to the clerk at the front counter of Columbus Buggy Works in Detroit: \u201cI\u2019m here to see Harvey Firestone.\u201d Ford was using bicycle tires for a car. Not viable, Ford knew at the time. So, Ford (lower right) approached Firestone to ask about solid-rubber tires as a substitute. Firestone had a different idea. \u201cThey were pneumatic tires,\u201d Ford later remembered. Harve&#8230;<\/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>It was 1895 and Henry Ford had just one thing to say to the clerk at the front counter of Columbus Buggy Works in Detroit: \u201cI\u2019m here to see Harvey Firestone.\u201d Ford was using bicycle tires for a car. Not viable, Ford knew at the time. So, Ford (lower right) approached Firestone to ask about solid-rubber tires as a substitute. Firestone had a different idea. \u201cThey were pneumatic tires,\u201d Ford later remembered. Harvey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legends","category-store-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Legends_Firestone.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}