{"id":3172,"date":"2012-04-16T18:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2012-04-16T18:36:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:36:36","slug":"waterpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"WATERPOWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Industrial Revolution as an event has always fascinated me. More than 30 years ago my wife and I took a tour of the mill sites in Rhode Island organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/\">Smithsonian<\/a>. Yesterday, Sunday we took a drive and re-visited some of these sites along the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood_River_(Pawcatuck_River)\">Wood River<\/a>. As you might imagine things had changed in the last thirty years and some things had not changed at all.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3172 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/horseshoe-falls765.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/horseshoe-falls765-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/horseshoe-falls765-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/horseshoe-falls765-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3173'>\n\t\t\t\tSHANNOCK 30 YEARS AGO\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shannack-4-15-12-97769-Version-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shannack-4-15-12-97769-Version-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shannack-4-15-12-97769-Version-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shannack-4-15-12-97769-Version-2-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3174'>\n\t\t\t\tSHANNOCK HORSESHOE FALLS TODAY\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/waterpower741.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/waterpower741-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/waterpower741-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/waterpower741-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bradford-4-15-12-97851.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bradford-4-15-12-97851-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bradford-4-15-12-97851-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bradford-4-15-12-97851-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3176'>\n\t\t\t\tBRADFORD MILLS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/carolina-4-15-12-97845.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/carolina-4-15-12-97845-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/carolina-4-15-12-97845-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/carolina-4-15-12-97845-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3177'>\n\t\t\t\tCAROLINA MILLS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kenyon-4-15-12-97872.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kenyon-4-15-12-97872-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3178\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kenyon-4-15-12-97872-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kenyon-4-15-12-97872-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3178'>\n\t\t\t\tKENYON MILLS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I am still hoping to find the photos from the first trip to show how things have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Industrial Revolution as an event has always fascinated me. More than 30 years ago my wife and I took a tour of the mill sites in Rhode Island organized by the Smithsonian. Yesterday, Sunday we took a drive and re-visited some of these sites along the Wood River. As you might imagine things had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WATERPOWER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[1271,480,1270,1272],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ri","tag-industrial-revolution","tag-rhode-island","tag-waterpower","tag-wood-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}