{"id":4742,"date":"2022-12-21T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/?page_id=4742"},"modified":"2022-12-21T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:54:48","slug":"christmas-in-racine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/features\/christmas-in-racine\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Racine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Racine-Journal-Dec-27-1865-p-3-merry-christmas-celery-cropped.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Racine-Journal-Dec-27-1865-p-3-merry-christmas-celery-cropped.jpeg\" alt=\"Something Good for Christmas: Our old English friend Mr. Brooks brought us in a large bundle of the most excellent celery we have had the pleasure of tasting this season. Thanks to you, Mr. Brooks; Merry Christmas, a happy New Year and a grand time on the 4th of July, and peace and plenty in all the intervening days is our sincere wish for you.\" class=\"wp-image-4743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Racine-Journal-Dec-27-1865-p-3-merry-christmas-celery-cropped.jpeg 382w, https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Racine-Journal-Dec-27-1865-p-3-merry-christmas-celery-cropped-300x189.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>This is the earliest &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; in local Racine news I can find (so far): Racine Journal, December 27, 1865. Celery was appreciated in the dead of winter in those pre-refrigeration days.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Racine-County-Argus-Dec-18-1873-p-2-merry-christmas-hats-cropped.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"462\" height=\"654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Racine-County-Argus-Dec-18-1873-p-2-merry-christmas-hats-cropped.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Racine-County-Argus-Dec-18-1873-p-2-merry-christmas-hats-cropped.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Racine-County-Argus-Dec-18-1873-p-2-merry-christmas-hats-cropped-212x300.jpeg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>This mention of Merry Christmas was in a hat advertisement in the Racine County Argus, December 18, 1873. This store was &#8220;2d door North P.O.&#8221; Do we know where the post office was in 1873?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- 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,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4742","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4742\/revisions\/4746"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}