{"id":1166,"date":"2018-11-15T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:17:48","slug":"margaret-wheatons-baby-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/margaret-wheatons-baby-basket\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Wheaton&#8217;s Baby Basket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/baby-Jim-Wheaton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"624\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/baby-Jim-Wheaton.jpg 916w, http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/baby-Jim-Wheaton-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/baby-Jim-Wheaton-768x523.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><br \/>\nMoses baskets may be popular among young mothers today, but they\u2019ve been around for a long time, well, since Baby Moses was placed in one and hidden in the reeds alongside of the Nile River.<br \/>\nThe baskets are designed for sleeping newborn babies for the first few months, providing a cozy space for infants alongside their mother.<br \/>\nBut did you know Wildwood, being the ultimate storyteller, has its own special, Moses baby-basket story to tell, thanks to Jim Wheaton, Wildwood-born native, Dr. Mace Baby and the keeper of his mother Margaret\u2019s basket? Jim shared his \u201cbasket story\u201d at our Annual \u201cBaby\u201d Photo Reunion this summer. On April 15, 1932, he became the first of many babies to be placed inside that basket. His mother shared the basket with many women ~ friends and family alike, and it continues to this day to welcome newborns, giving the basket its own part in the Wildwoods history.<br \/>\nThe Wheaton family also shares a long history in the Wildwoods, dating back to NW Mayor Harry Wheaton in the early 1900s&#8230;  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wheaton-crib.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wheaton-crib.jpg 1512w, http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wheaton-crib-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wheaton-crib-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1512px) 100vw, 1512px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moses baskets may be popular among young mothers today, but they\u2019ve been around for a long time, well, since Baby Moses was placed in one and hidden in the reeds alongside of the Nile River. The baskets are designed for sleeping newborn babies for the first few months, providing a cozy space for infants alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunbythesea.com\/ww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}