{"id":12720,"date":"2013-04-10T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12720"},"modified":"2013-04-12T08:48:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:48:30","slug":"d-e-johnson-michigan-author-and-auto-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/d-e-johnson-michigan-author-and-auto-historian","title":{"rendered":"D.E. Johnson, Michigan author and auto historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johnson_CarScheme\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.detroitnews.com\/politics\/files\/Johnson_CarScheme.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130409\/OPINION03\/304090317\/1008\/OPINION01\/Back-future-Detroit-Electric\">Detroit News column this week<\/a>\u00a0on the revival of the storied Detroit Electric car company, I quote D.E. Johnson, Michigan-based novelist and electric car historian on the uphill battle electrics face in the consumer market (from a piece in The Michigan View last year).<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Johnson\u2019s auto insight, I highly recommend his \u201cfaction\u201d novel set in 1910 Detroit, \u201cThe Great Detroit Electric Scheme.\u201d Not just a ripping good murder yarn \u2013 the book brings to life Detroit at the turn of the 20th century. From detailed encounters with the Dodge Bothers and young Edsel Ford to car factories on the riverfront to blind pigs on Gratiot, the book is a superb period piece (and he has a sequel in the works).<\/p>\n<p>Johnson lives near Kalamazoo. \u00a0He\u2019s Pure Michigan. His full library of books can be found at his web page\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dejohnsonauthor.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my\u00a0Detroit News column this week\u00a0on the revival of the storied Detroit Electric car company, I quote D.E. Johnson, Michigan-based novelist and electric car historian on the uphill battle electrics face in the consumer market (from a piece in The Michigan View last year). Beyond Johnson\u2019s auto insight, I highly recommend his \u201cfaction\u201d novel set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12721,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720\/revisions\/12721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}