{"id":88,"date":"2008-02-16T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T03:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-03-10T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T05:48:16","slug":"chinese-new-yearyear-of-the-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/chinese-new-yearyear-of-the-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year~Year of the Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Jacksonville, Oregon we went to the Chinese New year parade. The entire town of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonvilleoregon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville<\/a> is on the National Register of Historic Places, and it had a deep relationship with the Chinese in the 1800&#8217;s during it&#8217;s gold rush. It&#8217;s good to have a place like this so close to where you live.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always been a special town to me, growing up and now. As kids we always had a &#8220;field trip&#8221; to it&#8217;s historic museum, sack lunch in the park etc. In 1972 the movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068661\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid<\/a>&#8221; was filmed here almost entirely.<\/p>\n<p>These days they host the world famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brittfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Brit Music Festival. <\/a> Musicians consider it an honor to play here.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"year_of_rat_03.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_03.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"year_of_rat_03.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"year_of_rat_08.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_08.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"year_of_rat_08.jpg\" \/> <\/a><a title=\"year_of_rat_09.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_09.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"year_of_rat_09.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"year_of_rat_11.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_11.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"year_of_rat_11.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"year_of_rat_14.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_14.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"year_of_rat_14.jpg\" \/> <\/a><a title=\"year_of_rat_18.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_18.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"year_of_rat_18.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"year_of_rat_21.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/year_of_rat_21.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"year_of_rat_21.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Jacksonville, Oregon we went to the Chinese New year parade. The entire town of Jacksonville is on the National Register of Historic Places, and it had a deep relationship with the Chinese in the 1800&#8217;s during it&#8217;s gold rush. It&#8217;s good to have a place like this so close to where you live. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/chinese-new-yearyear-of-the-rat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese New Year~Year of the Rat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,5,76,8],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon-s2is","category-interests","category-photography","category-travel","tag-chinese-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}