{"id":5302,"date":"2014-01-17T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2014-01-17T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:46:23","slug":"the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hartford Circus Fire and Aetna Ambulance: Volume 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5303\" alt=\"Emmet Kelly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Emmet-Kelly-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Emmet-Kelly-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Emmet-Kelly-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Emmet-Kelly-403x300.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>by Sam Porcello<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-1\/\">Miss earlier volumes? Click here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Note: This post was written in the Summer of 2013) After advancing through the Regional competition at Torrington High School in March 2013, I participated in the State History Day competition at Central Connecticut State University on April 27<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 During the interview portion of the state competition, the judges were intrigued by the photo of the two \u201cdoctors\u201d loading a patient into an ambulance, and specifically asked about them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exhibit was awarded first place, so I will be participating in the National Competition at the University of Maryland in College Park from June 9-13.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition, each year at Nationals, one student from each state is nominated to display their exhibit at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.\u00a0 I am honored to have been selected this year, so the story of the Hartford Circus Fire and Aetna Ambulance will be on display at the museum on Wednesday, June 12.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank you again.\u00a0 Please know that I will be thinking of all of you in June when I compete for Connecticut, and am proud to share this part of Hartford history with others.\u00a0 The story of Aetna Ambulance is remarkable.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sam Porcello Miss earlier volumes? Click here\u2026 (Note: This post was written in the Summer of 2013) After advancing through the Regional competition at Torrington High School in March 2013, I participated in the State History Day competition at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116,43],"tags":[357,424,497,496],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5306,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions\/5306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}