{"id":1380,"date":"2008-12-29T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:17:19","slug":"mr-bingle-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Bingle lives on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left; padding:5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/hsg\/blogart\/xmas\/mrbingle2.jpg\" alt=\"mr. bingle\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Jingle, jangle, jingle<br \/>\nHere comes Mr. Bingle<br \/>\nWith another message from Kris Kringle<br \/>\nTime to launch your Christmas season<br \/>\nMaison Blanche makes Christmas pleasin&#8217;<br \/>\nGifts galore for you to see\/Each a gem from MB!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blatant commercialism, but Mr. Bingle, Santa&#8217;s holly-winged, elf snowman helper, is fondly remembered by many New Orleanians. Created in 1948 as an advertising gimmick of Maison Blanche department store in New Orleans, Mr. Bingle has become a New Orleans holiday icon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s your chance to get to know Mr. Bingle:<\/strong><br \/>\nBingle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dillards.com\/MrBingleAssets\/shtml\/crafts.shtml\">Crafts<\/a><br \/>\nMr. Bingle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dillards.com\/MrBingleAssets\/nostalgia\/tv_jingle.shtml\">Nostalgia<\/a><br \/>\nEven A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dillards.com\/MrBingleAssets\/shtml\/coloringbook.shtml\">Mr. Bingle coloring book<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jingle, jangle, jingle Here comes Mr. Bingle With another message from Kris Kringle Time to launch your Christmas season Maison Blanche makes Christmas pleasin&#8217; Gifts galore for you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,30],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}