{"id":2014,"date":"2014-03-26T22:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T22:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2014-03-26T23:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:06:37","slug":"steamer-verne-swain-newest-addition-to-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"Steamer VERNE SWAIN newest addition to collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This VERNE SWAIN postcard recently was offered for sale on EBay and I was able to add it to my collection of boats owned by the VALLY LINE.\u00a0 This picture would have been taken well before the\u00a0VALLEY LINE\u00a0owned this boat.\u00a0 There are pictures of the VERNE SWAIN taken at the Memphis riverfront sometime in the 1920&#8217;s.\u00a0 The Valley Line was formed\u00a0by the merger of Lee Line boats bought by Peters Lee, my grandfather S Rees Lee and the KATE ADAMS.\u00a0 Way&#8217;s Packet Directory list three boats named the VERNE SWAIN, this is boat 5552 in Way&#8217;s listings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2015\" alt=\"VERNE SWAIN\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/VERNE-SWAIN-1024x603.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/VERNE-SWAIN-1024x603.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/VERNE-SWAIN-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This VERNE SWAIN postcard recently was offered for sale on EBay and I was able to add it to my collection of boats owned by the VALLY LINE.\u00a0 This picture would have been taken well before the\u00a0VALLEY LINE\u00a0owned this boat.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-wu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}