{"id":1819,"date":"2013-04-11T19:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2013-04-17T23:54:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T23:54:02","slug":"georgia-lee-sunk-paducah-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"GEORGIA LEE sunk Paducah Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sunk-Georgia-Lee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1820\" alt=\"Sunk Georgia Lee\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sunk-Georgia-Lee-1024x647.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sunk-Georgia-Lee-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sunk-Georgia-Lee-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sunk-Georgia-Lee.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This great postcard turned up on Ebay recently,\u00a0it\u00a0was postmarked June 29, 1909.\u00a0\u00a0 In May 1909, she broke free from the chains used to pull her out for repairs and made a run for the river as Way&#8217;s Packet Directory describes her sinking.\u00a0 A enterprising photograher turned her sinking into a business opportunity by publishing this card shortly after her sinking.\u00a0 The University of Wisconsin LaCrosse archive has several photos of the sinking from various angles.\u00a0\u00a0 A colorized postcard showing the GEORGIA Lee after being refloated is more commonly available to collectors of steamboat postcards.\u00a0\u00a0 Having watched EBay for Lee Line postcards over the past several years, I was happy to be able to purchase this rare postcard at a very reasonable price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This great postcard turned up on Ebay recently,\u00a0it\u00a0was postmarked June 29, 1909.\u00a0\u00a0 In May 1909, she broke free from the chains used to pull her out for repairs and made a run for the river as Way&#8217;s Packet Directory describes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1819\">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-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}