{"id":2489,"date":"2022-12-22T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2022-12-27T13:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:43:02","slug":"a-bum-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/a-bum-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bum Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HESPERIA, CA. <br><br>Max Stroebel, who was to become known as the Father of Orange County, acting as agent for a syndicate bought 50,000 acres of land encompassing much of what makes Hesperia today. Purchasing the land was in anticipation of a railroad which was not to be for nearly 15 years, far too long for the investors. The land was sold at a loss and became the property of a German Temperance Colony.<br><br>Hesperia, Ca.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/hesperia-ca\/?fbclid=IwAR0cPESR1PvER29rzl46v3boHsf_6c-B9w4zzr10XGOLr567ML9t1g4mx20\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/hesperia-ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California Southern Railway<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/599-train-r2371.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/599-train-r2371.jpg 599w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/599-train-r2371-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 85vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HESPERIA, CA. Max Stroebel, who was to become known as the Father of Orange County, acting as agent for a syndicate bought 50,000 acres of land encompassing much of what makes Hesperia today. Purchasing the land was in anticipation of a railroad which was not to be for nearly 15 years, far too long for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/a-bum-investment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Bum Investment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}