{"id":23637,"date":"2016-12-18T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23637"},"modified":"2016-12-17T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T05:29:31","slug":"banking-on-a-christmas-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/banking-on-a-christmas-gamble\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking on a Christmas Gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During California’s Gold Rush two brothers labored feverishly in a\u00a0stream –week after week– with little luck. Frustrated and nearly broke, they decided to gamble on a new career. Using cut tree stumps as card tables, they borrowed a tent and set up a crude gambling parlor by the riverbank.<\/p>\n

With growing prosperity, the loyal sons wrote their parents\u00a0about their incredible success–well, sort of. They hedged a tad, not mentioning their gambling enterprise. Instead, they reported a thriving banking business.<\/p>\n

Things went well until their parents decided to visit them for Christmas. Read the rest of this fun holiday\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0written by historian Craig MacDonald from his book, “Old West Christmas — Tales with a Twist”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During California’s Gold Rush two brothers labored feverishly in a\u00a0stream –week after week– with little luck. Frustrated and nearly broke, they decided to gamble on a new career. Using cut tree stumps as card tables, they borrowed a tent and set up a crude gambling parlor by the riverbank. With growing prosperity, the loyal sons […]<\/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\/23637"}],"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=23637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}