{"id":2030,"date":"2015-04-12T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:16:56","slug":"new-on-the-blinking-line-journal-the-mammoth-potato-hoax-of-loveland-colorado-1894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"New On The Blinking Line Journal: The Mammoth Potato Hoax of Loveland, Colorado, 1894"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/0152bfcd931a094e97a03b5f1c7f06ed\/tumblr_n7dy5fQ7PC1qznoj2o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mammoth Potato Hoax of Loveland, Colorado, 1894\u2014Joseph B. Swan was a proud potato farmer who claimed to have grown a potato that was 13 pounds and 8 ounces. W.L. Thorndyke, editor of the Loveland Reporter, came up with an idea to help Swan promote his potatoes at an 1894 street fair. They created this trick photograph of a huge potato. This may have become the first viral fake photograph, though it was soon declared to be fraudulent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mammoth Potato Hoax of Loveland, Colorado, 1894\u2014Joseph B. Swan was a proud potato farmer who claimed to have grown a potato that was 13 pounds and 8 ounces. W.L. Thorndyke, editor of the Loveland Reporter, came up with an idea to help Swan promote his potatoes at an 1894 street fair. They created this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-blinkinglinejournal","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}