{"id":33233,"date":"2026-06-04T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=33233"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:32:09","slug":"anniversary-of-something-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/anniversary-of-something-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of Something Big\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1a.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1a-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1a-500x277.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below is a picture of the corner at 58 Bagley Ave in Detroit. It was once a house belonging to a young man named Henry Ford, who worked as Chief Engineer over at the Edison plant in what was then near downtown in a place looking toward the future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1b.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1b-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1b-500x255.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/060426-1b-700x358.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the first ride- a pal riding a bicycle ahead for clearance of the two-speed transmission (10 and 20 MPH) and no brakes.<\/p>\n<p>Inline image<\/p>\n<p>The Quadricycle? It still exists, and is on display at the Museum Henry left behind to give a tail to the future he helped create!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a picture of the corner at 58 Bagley Ave in Detroit. It was once a house belonging to a young man named Henry Ford, who worked as Chief Engineer over at the Edison plant in what was then near downtown in a place looking toward the future. On the first ride- a pal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33237,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33233\/revisions\/33237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}