{"id":4026,"date":"2011-07-08T18:56:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T00:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2011-07-08T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T00:56:54","slug":"clash-of-the-titans-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4026","title":{"rendered":"Clash of the Titans, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/07\/08\/3208899\/clash-of-the-titans-part-1.html\">Ed Wallace:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The history of the Ford Motor Company has rarely been told accurately. The moments when facts trump myth are rare; and then immediately, with the sweep of an indifferent hand, the wave of historical misinformation wipes out the truth, reinstating and protecting the legend. Bottom line, &#8220;what everybody knows&#8221; about Ford is hardly ever all true.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how it is with the creation of Ford&#8217;s third car company and its early years. For the truth is that once Ford and his staff of engineers created the original Model A in 1902, the company was organized and primarily run by James Couzens, a minority shareholder foisted onto Ford to keep an eye on the investors&#8217; monies. What no one imagined happening was that from their very first meeting, Ford decided that Couzens and he would partner up against the investment group &#8211; and his junior partner didn&#8217;t mind going along.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Wallace: The history of the Ford Motor Company has rarely been told accurately. The moments when facts trump myth are rare; and then immediately, with the sweep of an indifferent hand, the wave of historical misinformation wipes out the truth, reinstating and protecting the legend. Bottom line, &#8220;what everybody knows&#8221; about Ford is hardly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}