{"id":10264,"date":"2012-12-24T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2012-12-25T01:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T09:27:58","slug":"santa-claus-papa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/santa-claus-papa\/","title":{"rendered":"SANTA CLAUS PAPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/papasan6.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/information\/craig-macdonald-author.html\">Craig MacDonald<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(My grandfather, who was a miner and engineer in the Sierra, once told me an incredible story about a mother living near the gold-mining camp of Fair Play on the Cosumnes River in El Dorado County. I was able to piece together this story using grandpa&#8217;s information and some details uncovered from a 19th Century newspaper, I accidentally came across while doing research for a book.)<\/p>\n<p>A widow named Mary Stewart was having a very hard time making a go of it after her husband had been killed in a mine explosion. She worked long hours washing miners&#8217; clothes to put food on the table for her two small kids. Life was especially tough and discouraging with the approach of the first Christmas without her husband. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/santa-claus-papa.html\">Read the rest of this heart-warming, true tale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9\u00a0Craig MacDonald (My grandfather, who was a miner and engineer in the Sierra, once told me an incredible story about a mother living near the gold-mining camp of Fair Play on the Cosumnes River in El Dorado County. I was able to piece together this story using grandpa&#8217;s information and some details uncovered from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}