{"id":950,"date":"2014-11-16T21:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2014-11-16T21:13:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T02:13:44","slug":"santa-claus-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the annual Santa Claus Parade in Toronto. \u00a0It was a perfect day for it &#8211; a bit nippy with just a few snowflakes.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a bit of nostalgia and facts from the history of the parade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was sponsored by Eaton&#8217;s \u00a0and by 1950 the parade had grown to be the largest parade in North America.<\/li>\n<li>In 1976 over 30 million people across North America watched the Santa Claus parade on TV.<\/li>\n<li>In 1989 even the Soviet Union started airing the parade to viewers all across Russia!<\/li>\n<li>This year (2014) marked the 110th anniversary of the parade and was the largest ever!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of Eaton&#8217;s, here is one of my Christmas prints, titled &#8220;Eaton&#8217;s Windows&#8221; by Kathryn Smith and available at my studio: \u00a0905-528-4197 or on my website at www.kathrynsmith.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Eatons-Windows-C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Eatons-Windows-C.jpg\" alt=\"Eaton's Windows C\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Eatons-Windows-C.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Eatons-Windows-C-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>www.kathrynsmith.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the annual Santa Claus Parade in Toronto. \u00a0It was a perfect day for it &#8211; a bit nippy with just a few snowflakes. Here is a bit of nostalgia and facts from the history of the parade. It was sponsored by Eaton&#8217;s \u00a0and by 1950 the parade had grown to be the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}