{"id":1788,"date":"2017-04-22T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2017-07-23T08:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T12:59:45","slug":"textile-bobbins-lowell-national-historic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":"Textile Bobbins, Lowell National Historic Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1787\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bobbins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1787\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bobbins-918x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Textile Bobbins, Lowell National Historical Park\" width=\"600\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bobbins-918x1024.jpg 918w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bobbins-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bobbins-768x857.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bobbins.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Textile Bobbins, Lowell National Historical Park (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lowell is another town we had never visited in our trips to Boston. \u00a0My mother grew up in Lowell, which makes it doubly strange we had never visited. \u00a0Besides seeing the house mom grew up in, we visited Lowell National Historic Park.<\/p>\n<p>This place is amazing! \u00a0The National Park Service and the town of Lowell have done such a great job with the textile mills and worker housing in the area. \u00a0The Mill Girls and Immigrants exhibit was especially enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>They still make textiles to sell in the bookstore using the original equipment. \u00a0When you tour the inside of the mill, wear earplugs! \u00a0The machinery and shuttles banging back and forth weaving the linens\u00a0make quite the racket.<\/p>\n<p>Lowell National Historic Park N42 38 49.89 W71 18 34.32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lowell is another town we had never visited in our trips to Boston. \u00a0My mother&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[470,469,466,468],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","tag-lowell","tag-lowell-national-historic-park","tag-massachusetts","tag-textile-bobbins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}