{"id":46,"date":"2007-11-23T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/whoisknownasthefatheroftheamericanchristmascard\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:47:52","slug":"whoisknownasthefatheroftheamericanchristmascard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/christmastrivia\/whoisknownasthefatheroftheamericanchristmascard\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is known as the father of the American Christmas card?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Prang\">Louis Prang<\/a>, who perfected lithography and introduced the first line of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/christmas-cards.htm\">Christmas Cards<\/a> in 1875.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is known as the father of the American Christmas card?","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-christmastrivia","7":"cs-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who is known as the father of the American Christmas card? 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