{"id":2,"date":"2014-05-08T15:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:41:33","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/headshot1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-72 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/headshot1.jpg\" alt=\"William P. Gates\" width=\"180\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/headshot1.jpg 180w, http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/headshot1-123x150.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William P. Gates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WPG-on-MO.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-119\" src=\"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WPG-on-MO-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"WPG-on-MO\" width=\"180\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WPG-on-MO-237x300.jpg 237w, http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WPG-on-MO-118x150.jpg 118w, http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WPG-on-MO.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captain Bill Gates aboard the MOHICAN on Lake George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399561549437_4068\">William Preston \u201cBill\u201d Gates of Bolton Landing and Queensbury, is a retired teacher, Lake George steamboat captain and author of 12 local history books. Bill grew up in Bolton on Lake George, worked in his parents <\/b><i>Bill Gates<\/i><b> <\/b><i>Diner<\/i><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399561549437_4073\"> and has been a lifelong collector of local Lake George historical memorabilia and stories. He is a seventh generation member of his Gates family in Bolton, and is the fifth generation to live in his family\u2019s <\/b><i>1830 Gates Homestead<\/i><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399561549437_4074\"> in Bolton, now on the Register of Historic Places. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4348 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/collage-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/collage-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/collage-99x150.jpg 99w, http:\/\/wpgates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/collage.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399561549437_8905\">With 12 Lake George regional history books published, I&#8217;ve completed my next book, &#8220;GROWING UP ON LAKE GEORGE&#8221;, scheduled for publication in May 2022. I was very fortunate to be the oldest son of Bill &amp; Dawn Gates who operated our popular <\/b><i>Bill Gates Diner<\/i><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399561549437_8907\">, a converted Hudson Valley Trolley Car, now on display at the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh, NY. I am enjoying my recollections and am in no hurry to stop doing so. Also in the future, I may be selling some of the many duplicates in my Lake George collection and will list them at that time on this web site. \u00a0Enjoy the history!<span id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399561549437_8909\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><i id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399561549437_8908\">Bill Gates <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Preston \u201cBill\u201d Gates of Bolton Landing and Queensbury, is a retired teacher, Lake George steamboat captain and author of 12 local history books. Bill grew up in Bolton on Lake George, worked in his parents Bill Gates Diner and has been a lifelong collector of local Lake George historical memorabilia and stories. He is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wpgates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}