{"id":194362,"date":"2019-11-15T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=194362"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:58:57","slug":"flashback-friday-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-308\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Flashback Friday photo is&#8230;different.\u00a0The location may be a dead giveaway, but can you guess what year this photo was taken? UPDATE: The answer is in! See below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fb1115.jpg\" alt=\"Grass Bus\" width=\"944\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fb1115.jpg 944w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fb1115-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fb1115-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken in spring 1996. The &#8220;Grass Bus&#8221; was an Arts in Transit project, done in partnership with artist Gene Pool, aka Bill Harding, who was known for creating grass-covered clothes and vehicles during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grassb2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grassb2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grassb2-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have all of the information, but we believe this project was launched in part to commemorate the return of grass to the old Busch Stadium in 1996, which was using artificial turf since 1970 &#8211; hence the St. Louis Cardinals decal on the front of the bus and an appearance of Fredbird (and Weatherbird!) on the transit system with the artist.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any more information, please let us know. Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grassbus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"907\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grassbus1.jpg 907w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grassbus1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grassbus1-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 907px) 100vw, 907px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Flashback Friday photo is&#8230;different.\u00a0The location may be a dead giveaway, but can you guess what year this photo was taken? UPDATE: The answer is in! See below. This photo was taken in spring 1996. The &#8220;Grass Bus&#8221; was an Arts in Transit project, done in partnership with artist Gene Pool, aka Bill Harding, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[747],"class_list":["post-194362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-flashback-friday"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}