{"id":517,"date":"2014-02-12T17:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T01:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/?p=517"},"modified":"2014-03-09T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T19:20:16","slug":"1908-potato-farmers-and-lingerie-dresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/2014\/02\/12\/1908-potato-farmers-and-lingerie-dresses\/","title":{"rendered":"1908- Potato Farmers and Lingerie Dresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lingerie-dresses.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-519\" alt=\"Lingerie dresses\" src=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lingerie-dresses-468x342.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lingerie-dresses-468x342.jpg 468w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lingerie-dresses-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->The only Almquist newspaper update in 1908 is a quick mention of the bumper crop of potatoes Gus Almquist had out on his ranch as seen <a href=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1908-Potatoes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have to be sure to alert the press when my next crop of asparagus does well :). \u00a0Apparently potato farming is quite popular in Perris, as there is a potato festival every year in June, where there are events including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/perris-potato-festival.html\" target=\"_blank\">dressing up your potatoes<\/a>. \u00a0By the 1950&#8217;s the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.citytowninfo.com\/places\/california\/perris\" target=\"_blank\">King Edward<\/a> variety of potato was preferred, but I wonder what type Gus planted? Update- in the National Register of Historic places I found a mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/potatoassociation.org\/Industry%20Outreach\/varieties\/White%20Rounds\/white%20_rose.html\">White Rose<\/a> as the early Perris potato of choice. \u00a0It also talks about the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/image1.nps.gov:9001\/StyleServer\/calcrgn?cat=NRHP&amp;item=Text\/94000819.djvu&amp;style=nps\/FOCUS-DJview.xsl&amp;wid=640&amp;hei=480&amp;oif=jpeg&amp;props=item(SUMMARY,COPYRIGHT),cat(Name)&amp;plugin=false&amp;browser=gen&amp;&amp;page=8\" target=\"_blank\">spudrush<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I included the ad above to see if you all know what exactly lingerie dresses are? \u00a0Turns out it is a dress with lots of flair, i.e. embroidery, lace, ribbons, etc. \u00a0You can see an article on it <a href=\"http:\/\/pinsndls.com\/2012\/01\/21\/1900-1910-the-reign-of-the-lingerie-dress\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}