{"id":4377,"date":"1978-08-31T03:46:55","date_gmt":"1978-08-31T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2014-06-21T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T16:57:28","slug":"murray-baker-opening-day-much-colder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1978\/08\/31\/murray-baker-opening-day-much-colder\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray Baker Opening Day Much Colder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Murray Baker Bridge&#8217;s namesake was the star of the opening day ribbon cutting and crossing on a cold day in December 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Baker had been instrumental in planning for such a bridge during World War II and had been a vice president at Peoria&#8217;s two large industrial firms: Caterpillar and Le Tourneau. Fittingly, the bridge that led to the demolition of North Washington Street was named for a businessman who, with the backing of the corporations he worked for, had put energy into reforming Peoria politically and culturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Murray Baker Bridge&#8217;s namesake was the star of the opening day ribbon cutting and crossing on a cold day in December 1958. Baker had been instrumental in planning for such a bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[218,140,428],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murray-baker-bridge","tag-caterpillar","tag-le-tourneau","tag-murray-baker-bridge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}