{"id":179,"date":"2008-07-19T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/19\/happy-bloomer-day-a-minisode\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:32:00","slug":"happy-bloomer-day-a-minisode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/19\/happy-bloomer-day-a-minisode\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Bloomer Day!  A Minisode!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine&#8211;my birthday is also <strong>Bloomer Day!<\/strong>  The fun and riotous event to celebrate a significant and serious historical convention&#8211;The First Women&#8217;s Rights Convention held at Seneca Falls NY 19 July 1848.<\/p>\n<p>Deposited in the Kansas Historical Society are more than 700 autobiographical sketches written by Women&#8217;s Rights advocates who lived in Kansas.  Read the account\u00a0 in <em><strong>American Heritage<\/strong><\/em> (Vol 28, December 1976) of how these sketches were discovered in the attic of Lilla Day Monroe who commissioned the women to record their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe&#8217;s great-granddaughter, Joanna L. Stratton, a Harvard University student at the time, found the memoirs.  She has listed the names of the women in her book:   <em><strong> Pioneer Women:  Voices from the Kansas Frontier. <\/strong><\/em> New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1983.  Copies of this popular book can be found in many public libraries across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Your favorite genealogist of choice, Arlene Eakle<\/p>\n<p>PS  Watch your own daughters and granddaughters and perhaps even your great-granddaughters wardrobe in 2008.  The most popular new addition is leggings worn under short skirts.  The leggings reach below the knee&#8211;much like bloomers did during the Women&#8217;s Rights days&#8211;so they are visible.<\/p>\n<p>PPS And watch for the Birth, Marriage, Death Records Checklist for Pedigree Ladies in this <em><strong>Genealogy News Sheet.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine&#8211;my birthday is also Bloomer Day! The fun and riotous event to celebrate a significant and serious historical convention&#8211;The First Women&#8217;s Rights Convention held at Seneca Falls NY 19 July 1848. Deposited in the Kansas Historical Society are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/19\/happy-bloomer-day-a-minisode\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}