{"id":452,"date":"2019-05-24T18:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T18:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/?p=452"},"modified":"2019-05-24T18:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T18:38:49","slug":"the-wheels-museum-fuels-history-in-downtown-albuquerque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"The Wheels Museum fuels history in downtown Albuquerque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wheels Museum had an amazing opportunity when two brand new cars were donated to their museum. Sara Rose, your <a href=\"https:\/\/nmlivinglocal.com\/2019\/03\/15\/the-wheels-museum-fuels-history-in-downtown-albuquerque\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to Living Local<\/a>, and Samantha were there for an exclusive preview of the cars being dropped off, along with a history lesson on the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Never heard of the Wheels Museum? \u201cWheels\u201d is an acronym which stands for \u201cWe Have Everything Everyone Loves Spinning\u201d and the museum is about the progress of society through moving. It\u2019s an organization in the Albuquerque Rail Yards dedicated to collecting, preserving and creating educational exhibits about the history of transportation in Albuquerque and New Mexico with emphasis on the impact on the development of the area. Their collections embrace the history of the railroads, the impact of the rail yards on Albuquerque, as well as automobiles, horse and wagon, and other modes of transportation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s located at 1100 Second Street SW, on the site of the historic Santa Fe Railroad Shops in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now open for small groups, events, tours, and presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn some fun facts about our moving society? Take our <a href=\"https:\/\/nmlivinglocal.com\/2019\/03\/15\/trivia-the-history-of-wheels\/#\/questions\/2019476\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The History of Wheels Trivia Quiz!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wheels Museum had an amazing opportunity when two brand new cars were donated to their museum. Sara Rose, your Guide to Living Local, and Samantha were there for an exclusive preview of the cars being dropped off, along with a history lesson on the vehicles. Never heard of the Wheels Museum? \u201cWheels\u201d is an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}