{"id":30,"date":"2014-12-23T21:58:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpblogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/?p=30"},"modified":"2016-05-19T20:13:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:13:48","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/2014\/12\/23\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"The Digital Newspaper Team is pleased to say farewell to 2014 and welcome 2015 by wishing all our readers a Happy New Year!\n\nFor a great article about New Year&#8217;s food traditions, <a title=\"New Year Food\" href=\"http:\/\/texashistory.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metapth188309\/m1\/29\/zoom\/?zoom=5&amp;lat=1218.5&amp;lon=2241.5&amp;layers=BT\" target=\"_blank\">see this issue of the Texas Jewish Post<\/a>, from September 9, 2010.\u00a0 To see some fun photographs and read about New Year&#8217;s traditions from across the world, take a peek at <a title=\"Denison Press Tradition Photos\" href=\"http:\/\/texashistory.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metapth526956\/m1\/3\/zoom\/?zoom=3&amp;lat=5567.5&amp;lon=1985.5&amp;layers=BT\" target=\"_blank\">The Denison Press issue<\/a> from December 14, 1945.\u00a0 If you could hop into your time machine, you might want to visit Austin for December 31st, 1852, where the South-Western American announced a <a title=\"New Year's Eve Concert\" href=\"http:\/\/texashistory.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metapth79752\/m1\/2\/zoom\/?q=%22new%20year%27s%20eve%22&amp;zoom=4&amp;lat=3256&amp;lon=1502&amp;layers=BT\" target=\"_blank\">concert on New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/a>.\u00a0 But if you&#8217;re going to fire up the old time machine, you could<a href=\"http:\/\/texashistory.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metapth235921\/m1\/1\/zoom\/?q=%22new%20year%27s%20eve%22&amp;zoom=5&amp;lat=4414&amp;lon=2550&amp;layers=BT\" target=\"_blank\">join the Bastrop mule race<\/a>, which got publicity from as far away as Houston, from The Houston Advertiser, on Decmber 31st, 1856.\n\nMule races, good food, concerts&#8211;however you choose to celebrate, we hope you enjoy a great New Year!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Digital Newspaper Team is pleased to say farewell to 2014 and welcome 2015 by wishing all our readers a Happy New Year! For a great article about New Year&#8217;s food traditions, see this issue of the Texas Jewish Post, from September 9, 2010.\u00a0 To see some fun photographs and read about New Year&#8217;s traditions&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/2014\/12\/23\/happy-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Happy New Year!\">Read more &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/05\/happynewyear_0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5tTwO-u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/tdnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}