{"id":14773,"date":"2013-12-20T01:34:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14773"},"modified":"2013-12-20T01:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:41:07","slug":"holiday-ultimatum-at-gold-rush-birthplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/holiday-ultimatum-at-gold-rush-birthplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Ultimatum at Gold Rush Birthplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/marchpks.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos: Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park<\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Coloma, CA\u2014In the Holiday Season of 1847, Jennie Wimmer demanded respect in her job as camp cook and laundress near a sawmill construction site at the South Fork of the American River. As the only cook in camp, she got quite irritated when some workers failed to promptly answer her call to meals.<\/p>\n<p>When several men were late to breakfast on Christmas morning, she had enough, and issued a blistering ultimatum that if they didn\u2019t come on time, they\u2019d get no breakfast!<\/p>\n<p>This prompted Henry Bigler to write in his journal: \u201cOn Christmas Day in bed she swore, That she would cook for us no more, Unless we\u2019d come at the first call, \u2018For I am mistress of you all.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/gold-rush-birthplace.html\">\u00a0Read full story<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park By C. MacDonald Coloma, CA\u2014In the Holiday Season of 1847, Jennie Wimmer demanded respect in her job as camp cook and laundress near a sawmill construction site at the South Fork of the American River. As the only cook in camp, she got quite irritated when some workers [&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\/14773"}],"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=14773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}