{"id":57,"date":"2010-03-17T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=57"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:49:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:49:47","slug":"the-1903-joplin-fire-department-thanksgiving-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"The 1903 Joplin Fire Department Thanksgiving Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The young men and women of Joplin may have not caught a possum on  their evening foray in the winter of 1905, but Joplin&#8217;s firemen feasted  on one in 1903 for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Globe<\/em> reported, \u201cWhile the populace of Joplin was enjoying turkey  with sage dressing in their dining rooms, the members of the central  department were feasting on &#8216;possum and sweet potatoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:AwesomePossum-AmericanOpossum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo of possum\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4033\/4442335962_bd642a7493.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Possum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some possums may object to the content of this post.  Via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Source:  Joplin Globe 1903<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young men and women of Joplin may have not caught a possum on their evening foray in the winter of 1905, but Joplin&#8217;s firemen feasted on one in 1903 for Thanksgiving. The Globe reported, \u201cWhile the populace of Joplin was enjoying turkey with sage dressing in their dining rooms, the members of the central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[32,112,31,8,220,219,217,218,216,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}