{"id":41,"date":"2010-03-10T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-03-10T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T02:43:08","slug":"joplin-phone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Joplin, Phone Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the telephone in 1876.\u00a0 Six years later, telephones were considered a rare luxury and this list reveals some of the wealthier citizens of Joplin, as well the most successful businesses.\u00a0\u00a0 Even with a population in the thousands and businesses in at least the dozens, only about 51 telephones are listed.\u00a0 Times have changed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4423235923\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jopin Telephone Exchange list for 1882\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4066\/4423235923_766d13210f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Jopin Telephone Exchange list for 1882\" width=\"392\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jopin Telephone Exchange List for 1882.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: Joplin Daily Herald<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the telephone in 1876.\u00a0 Six years later, telephones were considered a rare luxury and this list reveals some of the wealthier citizens of Joplin, as well the most successful businesses.\u00a0\u00a0 Even with a population in the thousands and businesses in at least the dozens, only about 51 telephones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[32,52,66,31,8,139,11,48,141,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}