{"id":1142,"date":"2008-10-26T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2008-10-26T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T00:57:11","slug":"hartfords-hooker-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/26\/hartfords-hooker-day-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartford&#039;s Hooker Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a beautiful day for a parade, and Hartford&#8217;s Hooker Day parade downtown made the most of it.  The event revived a city tradition that ran from 1991 through 2001, honoring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Hooker\">Thomas Hooker<\/a>, Hartford&#8217;s founding father.  Here are a few of the sights from the fun and whimsical event.<\/p>\n<table COLS=2>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/01-band.jpg\" alt=\"01-band\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/02-mayormike.jpg\" alt=\"02-mayormike\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/03-festivities.jpg\" alt=\"03-festivities\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/04-dacingclown.jpg\" alt=\"04-dancingclown\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/05-pearlstreet.jpg\" alt=\"05-pearlstreet\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/06-coneheads.jpg\" alt=\"06-coneheads\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/07-geisha.jpg\" alt=\"07-geisha\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/08-marktwain.jpg\" alt=\"08-marktwain\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/09-bird.jpg\" alt=\"09-bird\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/10-band1.jpg\" alt=\"10-band1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a beautiful day for a parade, and Hartford&#8217;s Hooker Day parade downtown made the most of it. The event revived a city tradition that ran from 1991 through 2001, honoring Thomas Hooker, Hartford&#8217;s founding father. Here are a few of the sights from the fun and whimsical event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1575,1578],"tags":[2038,4017,2327,2496,2607],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-hartford","tag-downtown-hartford","tag-hartford","tag-hooker-day-parade","tag-mayor-mike","tag-pearl-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}