{"id":2886,"date":"2020-10-23T16:55:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2021-01-24T13:16:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T18:16:24","slug":"cass-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Cass Taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2303\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2303\" src=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CassTaxi-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright Larry Johnston\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CassTaxi-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CassTaxi-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CassTaxi-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CassTaxi-1536x1136.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CassTaxi-2048x1515.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright Larry Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 15.0pt; background: white; margin: 5.25pt 0in 5.25pt 0in;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; color: #333333;\">Cass Taxi<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 15.0pt; background: white; margin: 5.25pt 0in 5.25pt 0in;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Cassopolis, Michigan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt; background: white; margin: 5.25pt 0in 5.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: #333333;\">Not all paintings, that I created were for sale.\u00a0 I have painted a number of them as gifts for members of our family. Cass Taxi, was a present for my mother and father.\u00a0 When my dad got of WWII, he bought a chicken coop and made a taxi business in the center of the village of Cassopolis, Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt; background: white; margin: 5.25pt 0in 5.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: #333333;\">In addition to the taxi business, of which my mother and dad ran 24 hours a day between the two of them, they also had a Greyhound bus station.\u00a0 The painting was a picture of them standing in front of the office, with my mother holding our\u00a0Boston terrier, &#8220;Puggie&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt; background: white; margin: 5.25pt 0in 5.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: #333333;\">They ran the Taxi business from 1947 until 1957.\u00a0 I painted the painting and gave it to them for Christmas in about 1989.\u00a0 The painting now hangs in my home.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass Taxi Cassopolis, Michigan Not all paintings, that I created were for sale.\u00a0 I have painted a number of them as gifts for members of our family. Cass Taxi, was a present for my mother and father.\u00a0 When my dad got of WWII, he bought a chicken coop and made a taxi business in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[867,850,851,855,852,865,344,439,868,440,442,441],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-x-12","tag-artist","tag-cass","tag-cass-taxi","tag-cassopolis","tag-chicken-coop","tag-larry-johnston","tag-michigan","tag-my-parents","tag-nostalgia","tag-parents-business","tag-quonset-hut","tag-taxi","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}