{"id":17725,"date":"2010-08-26T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T01:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=17725"},"modified":"2010-08-26T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T01:44:13","slug":"now-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/now-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Now and Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/1944.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><strong>Mackinac Island 1944 and today<\/strong><!--more--><br \/>\nAs the summer winds down, we take a look back at Mackinac Island as it was during WWII and again as it was last Tuesday.  This video was viewed in theaters across the nation in 1944 as a short subject presented before the main feature.<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q-jn127ea6Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nNow we can compare Mackinac yesterday and today.<br \/>\nPerhaps Arch Rock has undergone the most changes.  If you will observe the tourists climbing on top of the arch, you will understand why so much superstructure has been added to protect both the tourists and the Arch itself.<br \/>\nThe Biddle House still stands in the same location on Market Street, and the State of Michigan has given the old girl a facelift and a new coat of paint.<br \/>\nAs for the rest of these landmarks, an aging youth from 1944 would still feel right at home on the Island.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/arch1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/arch2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/biddle1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/biddle2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/fort1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/fort2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/grand1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/grand2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/grand3.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/grand4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/harbor1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/harbor2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/main1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/main2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mackinac Island 1944 and today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-now-and-then"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}