{"id":15118543,"date":"2026-05-24T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/this-was-the-first-real-gas-station-in-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:02:04","slug":"this-was-the-first-real-gas-station-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/this-was-the-first-real-gas-station-in-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"This Was The First Real Gas Station In The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gas stations have come a long way. The first one ever built used a hilariously simple and crude method to fill cars with gas, and it&#039;s a total nostalgia trip.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jalopnik.com\/img\/gallery\/this-was-the-first-real-gas-station-in-the-nation\/intro-1778848567.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jalopnik.com\/2177022\/first-gas-station-ever-built-st-louis-missouri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Autos \u2013 Jalopnik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas stations have come a long way. The first one ever built used a hilariously simple and crude method to fill cars with gas, and it&#039;s a total nostalgia trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15118545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15118543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autos"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567.jpg",1600,897,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-620x348.jpg",620,348,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-768x431.jpg",768,431,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-940x527.jpg",940,527,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-1536x861.jpg",1536,861,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567.jpg",1600,897,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-1340x894.jpg",1340,894,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15118543-l-intro-1778848567-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/autos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Autos<\/a>","tag_info":"Autos","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15118544,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118543\/revisions\/15118544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15118545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}