{"id":35543,"date":"2023-09-06T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=35543"},"modified":"2023-09-06T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:56:28","slug":"on-sept-6-1930-george-jenkins-opened-his-first-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/09\/06\/on-sept-6-1930-george-jenkins-opened-his-first-store\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sept. 6, 1930, George Jenkins opened his first store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sept. 6, 1930, George Jenkins opened his first store, called Publix Food Store, in Winter Haven. In 1935, he opened a second location across town. Five years later, he closed both stores to create the first supermarket &#8211; there&#8217;s a historical marker on West Central Avenue in downtown Winter Haven at that location.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"230\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/publix.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/publix.png 488w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/publix-300x141.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County is proud to be the birthplace of Mr. Jenkins&#8217; dream!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 6, 1930, George Jenkins opened his first store, called Publix Food Store, in Winter Haven. In 1935, he opened a second location across town. Five years later, he&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5918,5920,5919],"class_list":["post-35543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-5918","tag-george-jenkins-opened-his-first-store","tag-on-sept-6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35546,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543\/revisions\/35546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}