{"id":452,"date":"2011-05-25T19:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T00:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=452"},"modified":"2011-05-25T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T00:20:34","slug":"your-local-power-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Your Local Power Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Empire District Electric Company trucks and employees tirelessly work to repair downed lines and restore power throughout Joplin, they are carrying on a long tradition of service to the community.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empiredistrict.com\/About\/History.aspx\">Since 1909, the company has provided power to Joplin for over a century<\/a>.\u00a0 Below is an ad from the company&#8217;s earlier days when electricity was still a technological marvel and a convenience that many eagerly sought.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5759663489\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Empire District Electric company ad\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2484\/5759663489_01082950b6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for Empire District Electric Company from 1911.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Joplin Daily Globe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Empire District Electric Company trucks and employees tirelessly work to repair downed lines and restore power throughout Joplin, they are carrying on a long tradition of service to the community.\u00a0 Since 1909, the company has provided power to Joplin for over a century.\u00a0 Below is an ad from the company&#8217;s earlier days when electricity [&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],"tags":[1768,5,1774,1773,328,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}