{"id":100,"date":"2013-12-24T23:16:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/?p=100"},"modified":"2013-12-24T23:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:16:30","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Collin<\/a>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n

A familiar sight growing up in Texas was the tin you see on the left. \u00a0It’s a fruitcake tin from the Collin Street Bakery<\/a> in Corsicana. \u00a0That’s south of Dallas, in case you didn’t know. \u00a0The bakery famous for their fruitcakes, among other things. \u00a0 \u00a0Much of their business is through mail order.<\/p>\n

I remember seeing these tins when I was a kid. \u00a0While time has corroded my memory (and some would say my mind), I think we would take one to my grandparents in Mississippi when we would visit for the holidays. \u00a0I have a vague recollection of seeing one one the table and being struck that it was there since the Alamo is prominently displayed at the top of the picture.<\/p>\n

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Image from Collin Street Bakery website<\/p><\/div>\n

The Collin Street Bakery was founded in 1896 by Gus Weidmann and Tom McElwee. \u00a0It didn’t take long for their products to gain recognition. \u00a0Early customers included Will Rogers, “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, and John Ringling, the circus owner. \u00a0On one occasion, so the story goes, the entire circus ordered fruitcakes to send to friends around the globe. \u00a0The Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus still gets its fruitcakes from the Collin Street Bakery.<\/p>\n

Different Christmas posts are up at Adventures Fantastic<\/a>, Futures Past and Present<\/a>, and Gumshoes, Gats, and Gams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas! A familiar sight growing up in Texas was the tin you see on the left. \u00a0It’s a fruitcake tin from the Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana. \u00a0That’s south of Dallas, in case you didn’t know. \u00a0The bakery famous for their fruitcakes, among other things. \u00a0 \u00a0Much of their business is through mail order. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[8,11,12],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-christmas","tag-collin-street-bakery","tag-fruitcake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P4UF-1C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}