{"id":5391,"date":"2014-12-03T18:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T01:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/wickenburg-christmas-hat-decorations\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T18:33:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T01:33:22","slug":"wickenburg-christmas-hat-decorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/wickenburg-christmas-hat-decorations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickenburg Christmas Hat Decorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-hat.jpg' title='Wickenburg Christmas Hat'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-hat.jpg' alt='Wickenburg Christmas Hat' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>Bob and I were shopping in the old downtown area yesterday. Across from one of the shops on Tegner, I noticed the town had put up some Christmas decorations on the street lights. On the top of the light fixture, there was a cowboy hat reminiscent of that worn by the town&#8217;s founder, <strong>Henry Wickenburg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Wickenburg Christmas Hat &#8211; click to enlarge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the things we love about our town. It, and the townspeople, have character. I remember seeing the hats from last year, but they are a relatively new item in front of the courthouse where the bust of Henry (inset in the photo) has been placed.<\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;re not going away this year, we&#8217;re looking forward to spending the Christmas Holidays here in tow, enjoying the character of our town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and I were shopping in the old downtown area yesterday. Across from one of the shops on Tegner, I noticed the town had put up&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,7,35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-culture","category-holidays","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}