{"id":2615,"date":"2017-01-12T19:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2017-01-12T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:43:11","slug":"1884-memphis-steamboat-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"1884 Memphis steamboat history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This interesting page of history covers May through October 1884 and covers some work history of Capt. James Lee Jr as well as chronicles a number of steamboat accidents beginning with a broken tiller line on the JAMES LEE. \u00a0 Of interest as well is the mention of Lee Line Capt. Claggett who worked as a mate on the JAMES LEE when it caught fire while work was being done on the pilot house. \u00a0Mate Claggett picked up Capt. James Lee Sr who weighed 300 pounds and carried him to safety. \u00a0 A previous description of Mate Claggett used the adjective brawny.<a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/00072-James-Lee-broken-tiller-line-7-1-1884-e1484248379431.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2614\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/00072-James-Lee-broken-tiller-line-7-1-1884-e1484248379431-785x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/00072-James-Lee-broken-tiller-line-7-1-1884-e1484248379431-785x1024.jpeg 785w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/00072-James-Lee-broken-tiller-line-7-1-1884-e1484248379431-230x300.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/00072-James-Lee-broken-tiller-line-7-1-1884-e1484248379431-768x1002.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interesting page of history covers May through October 1884 and covers some work history of Capt. James Lee Jr as well as chronicles a number of steamboat accidents beginning with a broken tiller line on the JAMES LEE. \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2615\">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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-Gb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","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=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}