{"id":4406,"date":"2014-11-25T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2023-06-20T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:43:48","slug":"11271975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/2014\/11\/11271975\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/27\/1975 &#8211; &#8216;Thanksgiving Float.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1975 Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade marked the second appearance of a <em>Sesame Street<\/em> float as part of this much beloved New York tradition. The Muppets from <em>Sesame Street<\/em> continue to join the spectacle each year on a float joined by the human cast and often in the form of giant balloons. Read about Jim\u2019s enthusiastic participation in Macy\u2019s annual parade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/2013\/11\/11281974\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/2013\/11\/11221979\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4408\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GUE_13502_MacysParadeAd1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4408\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4408\" title=\"Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Ad 1978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GUE_13502_MacysParadeAd1978-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GUE_13502_MacysParadeAd1978-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GUE_13502_MacysParadeAd1978.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advertisement for the 1978 Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4409\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CM_16939_KermitBalloon_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4409\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4409\" title=\"CM_16939_KermitBalloon_01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CM_16939_KermitBalloon_01-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CM_16939_KermitBalloon_01-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CM_16939_KermitBalloon_01.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kermit balloon in the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional historical information provided by The Jim Henson Company Archivist. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/2014\/11\/11271975\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,44,18],"tags":[744],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-november-75","category-44","category-appearances","tag-sesame-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions\/7526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henson.com\/jimsredbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}