{"id":319,"date":"2006-07-19T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/2006\/07\/19\/bet-you-didnt\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T03:18:00","slug":"bet-you-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/bet-you-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bet you didn&#8217;t know this about Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This type of list is right up my alley. It includes all sorts of factoids about the state of Massachusetts, most of which I never heard before. Makes me want to visit there. Oh, wait, I am going to visit there&#8212;on August 9th, at 6:30PM, I will be doing a multi-media presentation on Lizzie Borden in Popular Culture at the Fall River Public Library (shameless plug). <\/p>\n<p>Oh, back to the subject at hand. Here is a sample from the list which can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass-vacation.com\/html\/industry_news\/press\/bet%20you%20didnt%20know%20this%20about%20mass1.pdf\">downloaded as a PDF here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Chubby Woodman!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Inventions and Innovations<\/strong><br \/>\n1891 Basketball was invented by James Naismith in Springfield<br \/>\n1895 Volleyball was invented by William Morgan in Holyoke<br \/>\n1925 Frozen food invented by Clarence Birdseye in Gloucester<br \/>\n1928 First computer was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge<br \/>\n1930 Chocolate chips and chocolate chip cookies invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield. Wakefield named her new cookie invention after the Toll House Inn, which she ran in Whitman, Massachusetts.<br \/>\n1855 Boston cream pie, Parker House rolls and Boston Scrod were all invented at the Omni Parker House in Boston.<br \/>\n1914 Fried clams invented by Lawrence &#8220;Chubby&#8221; Woodman in Essex<br \/>\n1957 Pink flamingo lawn ornaments invented by Don Featherstone in Leominster<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This type of list is right up my alley. It includes all sorts of factoids about the state of Massachusetts, most of which I never heard before. Makes me want to visit there. Oh, wait, I am going to visit there&#8212;on August 9th, at 6:30PM, I will be doing a multi-media presentation on Lizzie Borden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-river-news","category-off-topic","category-unabashed-self-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}