{"id":23516,"date":"2016-11-22T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23516"},"modified":"2016-11-22T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:46:36","slug":"turkey-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/turkey-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"A Turkey Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tukydriv2.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Get along little turkeys\u00a0\u2014 one of the oddest events in Western History \u2014 a Turkey Drive!\u00a0Turkeys were scarce across the Old West but thanks to an enterprising Californian the residents of\u00a0Carson City, NV, enjoyed holiday turkey dinners in\u00a01866. Henry C.\u00a0Hooker had his 500\u00a0turkeys walk through warm tar, then sand, to give them protection while making the\u00a060-mile\u00a0journey between Hangtown and Carson City through the snow.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/turkey-dinner-1866.html\">Here&#8217;s the story<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get along little turkeys\u00a0\u2014 one of the oddest events in Western History \u2014 a Turkey Drive!\u00a0Turkeys were scarce across the Old West but thanks to an enterprising Californian the residents of\u00a0Carson City, NV, enjoyed holiday turkey dinners in\u00a01866. Henry C.\u00a0Hooker had his 500\u00a0turkeys walk through warm tar, then sand, to give them protection while making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/23516"}],"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=23516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}