{"id":231,"date":"2009-12-25T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T06:33:49","slug":"aida-austins-1880-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Aida Austin&#8217;s 1880 Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aida Austin was the sister of my grandfather Charles Mortimer Austin. In a letter she wrote to her brother Lon, she told about her 1880 Christmas in New York City with her Austin cousins\u2014two of whom she mentioned\u2014Ida and Ad (Addie).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday January 23, 1881<\/strong><br \/>\nDear Brother Lon,<br \/>\nHow did you spend your Christmas and New Years? I had a very good time each day and got some nice presents. We had a little Christmas tree for the children and I dressed up as old Santa Clause. My hair which I had for whiskers, I caught on fire, but Ida and Ad put it out so quick that it did not do much damage. The children were greatly pelased and believe faithfully in Santa Clause. <\/p>\n<p>We did not receive calls New Years. Harry and I went to the Park in the evening to skate, but there was no skating, so we came back and stayed at Mrs. Braisteds until ten o&#8217;clock. I have a splendid pair of skates, but cannot skate very good yet. <\/p>\n<p>Write soon. With much love, I remain your affectionate sister,<br \/>\nAida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aida Austin was the sister of my grandfather Charles Mortimer Austin. In a letter she wrote to her brother Lon, she told about her 1880 Christmas in New York City with her Austin cousins\u2014two of whom she mentioned\u2014Ida and Ad &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aida-austin-diary","category-book-excerpts","tag-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}