{"id":282,"date":"2007-10-20T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:34","slug":"fertile-business-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/fertile-business-card.html","title":{"rendered":"Fertile Business Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/1\/11\/Earnie-askelson-pontiac-allis-chalmers-new-idea-holland.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/1\/11\/Earnie-askelson-pontiac-allis-chalmers-new-idea-holland.jpg\/400px-Earnie-askelson-pontiac-allis-chalmers-new-idea-holland.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Earnie Askelson lived in the small city of Fertile, MN, one of the larger stops between Fargo and Grand Forks along US 75.  During the 1950s, Thorkelson &#038; Jacobs was an implement dealer, catering to the huge farming community in the region.  As you might notice, firm lines weren&#8217;t drawn between the types of machines with engines:  cars were sold along with the plows and harvesters.  For a small town, I&#8217;ll bet this helped against spreading the expert mechanics too thin between dealerships.  Thorkelson &#038; Jacobs no longer exists &#8211;if you&#8217;re looking for a Pontiac, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmotors.com\">Christian Motors<\/a> is the GMC dealership in Fertile now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-2891840177724242080?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earnie Askelson lived in the small city of Fertile, MN, one of the larger stops between Fargo and Grand Forks along US 75. During the 1950s, Thorkelson &#038; Jacobs was an implement dealer, catering to the huge farming community in the region. As you might notice, firm lines weren&#8217;t drawn between the types of machines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[549,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}